2002 Nicolas Potel Bonnes Mares

Community Tasting Notes (22) Avg Score: 92.3 points

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  11/8/2022 - NickA Likes this wine: 92 Points

  2002 Burgundy, round 2 (Noize): A slight chemically funk on opening, that blew off fairly quickly. An unusual wine with a lot going on (in the order I noted them down): soft cassis, burned caramel, campfire, cranberry, fresh red fruit, bitter orange and mezcal...! Enjoyable, but not a stand-out, and felt pretty young.

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  5/2/2021 - beatles wrote: 92 Points

  Drinking a point with plenty of fruit left here, some sous bois, good acidity, complete wine a bit on the masculine side for a Bonnes Mares, perhaps, and a great match with the morels.
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  4/16/2019 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points

  2002 Burgundy Dinner (Chef Kang, MacKenzie Road, Singapore): This has been consistently good over three bottles, tasted over the course of 7 years or so. From a magnum this time, this had a lovely nose of blueberries and violets, earth and spice, with a just a touch of burnt rubber and a hint of meatiness to it. Lovely stuff, and quite characteristically Bonnes Mares to my mind. The palate was nice and approachable too. Perhaps a touch sterner, less charming than the nose, but very drinkable nonetheless. Here, plump flavours of blueberries and black cherries played against a backdrop of spice, mineral and earth. There was a nice sense of breezy freshness lent to it by some juicy acidity, but there was also an underlying structure of slightly drying, woody tannins that came up more as the wine moved into its long spicy finish. Altogether a yummy, if not quite complete Bonnes Mares. This did falter a bit against tough competition its flight-mates (superb 2002 Bonnes Mares from Mugnier and Vogue), but that would be nitpicking. This was very nice on the night. I did think that it should be drank sooner rather than later though, lest the fruit fades behind its structure.

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  12/8/2018 - MikeATL wrote: 89 Points

  Not a bad Saturday afternoon: Kind of muddled dark cherry with a touch of brown sugar. Nice, but not at the level I'd expect from this producer, vintage, and cru.

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  8/18/2018 - Kemo Sabe Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Upgrading my score from a few years ago. This has aged nicely. Felt this was deeper with more dark, black fruits. Really well balanced wine that was rich and texturally very interesting. Red and black fruit, earth, spices, cherries and blackberries. Really nice BM.

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