1997 Nicolas Potel Clos de la Roche
Pinot Noir
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By Allen Meadows
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9/16/2000, (See more on Burghound...)
Burgundy-Report
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By Bill Nanson
(Potel Nicolas Clos de la Roche) A medium-plus ruby-red, right up to the rim. The nose shows plenty of red cherry covering a deeper base of solid fruit and just a trace of secondary scents. Super intensity as you draw air through the wine, the fruit just shaded towards red. The tannins are in the background and there's a lovely texture to the wine. Very long, but the finish is initially spoiled by an awkward showing to the acidity - but I think this must have been the cheese I was tasting (Sbrinz) as one espresso later, everything was fine. A very good and relatively young wine which improve over several years.
3/1/2004, (See more on Burgundy-Report...)
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Wine Definition
- Vintage1997
- TypeRed
- ProducerNicolas Potel
- VarietyPinot Noir
- Designationn/a
- Vineyardn/a
- CountryFrance
- RegionBurgundy
- SubRegionCôte de Nuits
- AppellationClos de la Roche Grand Cru
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2/10/2016 - dchoo077 wrote: 92 Points
PnP. The wine took about half an hour to open up and the wait was worth it. Aromatic and very fine, this wine showed good depth and finished with a gentle persistence. More feminine than one would expect from a CdR but presumably that is due to the nature of the '97 vintage. Beautiful stuff and very much at peak now.
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11/29/2013 - steinersing wrote: 91 Points
This is a great wine for the vintage. Very open and fine. Great balance. Great Pinot fruit.
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1/20/2013 - Paul S wrote: 93 Points
Celebration Lunch at Kel's (Kelvin and Joyce's Place, Bishan): I have had some surprisingly lovely 1997 Burgundies in recent times, and this was one of them. It had beautiful nose, full of sweet red fruited aromas - cherries and raspberries, strawberries even - and then a layer of earth and meat, and lovely drifts of violets and spice. Complex, lovely stuff. The palate did not quite have the depth of a great CdlR, but it was still very impressive for the vintage, with a nice sappiness to its juicy flavours of red cherries, rapberries and strawberries, all underpinned by a gentle savoury note of earth and meat. It did not have the brightest acidity, but was still nicely balanced and posied, with fine tannins lending a nice sense of structure to the wine as it pulled away into a lovely finish with more violets and spice. Great stuff and seemingly at peak, this was a very pretty, feminine version of Clos de la Roche. While not exactly the most powerful wine, it had impressive depth for 1997, with a lovely mouthfilling perfume and warmth to it. Not bad at all for a vintage that I had started consigning to history.
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4/30/2012 - Rupert wrote:
Ray Walker visits London (Chez Bruce, Wandsworth, London): Much drier than the Dujac, animale, quite grippy, very good
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