2001 Nicolas Potel Mazis-Chambertin

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  11/25/2021 - J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine: 92 Points

  For FMIII's charity challenge. People offered hundreds of dollars to see me drink a GC Burg. Not a big deal for me, but people think that since I collect mainly Saxum, SQN and Scarecrow, I couldn't possibly own this.
  
  WRONG. According to CT, I bought this exactly 15 years ago, probably at Zachy's. In my passive cellar for about 5 years and then moved to our temperature controlled cellar when we got around to building it. Pop and pour, which was a mistake, because it really blossomed at about two hours. Outstanding balance with no rough edges and nothing negative. After a few hours, it exploded with fruit. Dark red fruit with nice complexity. Mostly cherry but other fruits as well. Moderate acidity, which is just fine with me, because I do not need my teeth etched every time I drink wine. Very smooth and easy to drink. I have some 2005 Hospices Mazis Madeline Collignon and if I can extrapolate from this bottle to that bottle, with vintage variation, maybe it will poke its nose into the exceptional category in five years. This is my third and last bottle of this and I wish I had more because it wears its age very well and I suspect that it will be even better in a few years. BTW - The color was just showing a tiny bit of aging in a flat bottomed burg glass. I suspect that in a regular tulip glass it would not have been noticeable.

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  7/9/2017 - Paul S wrote: 91 Points

  Dinner at Brian's (Moonbeam View): One of the many mundane bottles of Potel Grand Cru circa early 2000s that I have had in recent years. A decently good wine, but rather boring and certainly underperforming for its vintage and terroir. The nose was intriguing enough - almost intensely perfumed I thought, with drifts of flowers, spa incense, lavendar and garrigue, all hovering about a meaty core, with bits of red fruit in there. The palate had that nice clean, fresh feel in its black cherry expression that is so very 2001. However, it was also marked by a real grip of sinewy tannins. These felt quite fine on the attack and midpalate, but went positively drying towards the finish, giving the wine a rather rustic chew that cut against the grain of the nice fruit expression. All in all, a decent wine, but not a great one - don't think this is going to get much better with time either.

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  6/7/2017 - J @ y H @ c k Likes this wine:

  Pop and pour - give it an hour or two decant. Nice, moderately complex, not a religious experience.

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  10/15/2014 - DaleW wrote:

  Tight and a little musty at first (but not corked), opens a bit, red fruit, spice, earth. Pleasant and a good accompaniment to the food, but didn’t strike me as GC. A 2001 Drouhin village Chambolle recently had more depth. Decent wine, but a little disappointing in context. B/B-

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  1/21/2012 - lepetitchateau wrote: 89 Points

  A flat out beautiful nose, lovely intensity. Sadly on the palate that intensity wanes, and this wine was a bit too elegant, perhaps giving the sense that it was striped. The acidity is a bit strident.

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