1999 Nicolas Potel Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Les Gaudichots

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  1/4/2024 - Motox Likes this wine: 95 Points

  First of 3 in inventory & couldn't resist opening what all were saying needed a decade. Opened at Au Chaval, the cork was perfect & we let it sit in bottle for an hour before we touched it. Enjoyed it over the next hr as a cacophony of gorgeous red fruits emerged with a touch of earth to perfect grip & weight. Perhaps it was in my head but with ea passing sip it did feel like DRC in style, all roads pointed to laying down for min of 5 yrs on next ride....

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  1/8/2023 - sjwshiraz wrote:

  The legendary DRC-sourced bottling. Still needs another 10 years. Will be stunning but leave for now

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  1/21/2022 - rc@ughey wrote: 92 Points

  For my palate, this still needs loads and loads of time. The nose is a lovely and penetrating--red fruits, earth, and floral tones--and the palate is concentrated. But the structure is still firm and the palate impression more reticent than I would have expected. Medium body and weight. It's pretty enjoyable now, but I expect a quantum leap by 2030.

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  5/25/2020 - Keith Levenberg wrote: 93 Points

  Longtime bucket list wine for me, thanks M. The fabled vintage made from one barrel from DRC and nothing else. It takes some time to open up (though not so long as the Grands Ech), aromatics a bit tight and taciturn in the afternoon but eventually expanding (if not quite blooming) into petrichor, stony earth, and, later, some of that toasty five spice which is the "Freebird!" of any VR. On the palate it's mostly resolved in texture, glossy and grippy although with a definite streak of something spearminty or sage-like that doesn't feel entirely like a vestige of its stems. Does it feel like drinking DRC? Not really, because the body doesn't have that grand cru feel, as dramatized by the comparison with the more expansive (though much less ready) Grands Ech, but it is still a top notch 1er starting to exhibit real personality, just teetering on the edge of a comfy drinking window, which is pretty nice to see since the '99s were backwards for so long, and since Gaudichots along with Malconsorts are probably the most time-demanding sites in the neighborhood. Another 5 or 10 should put this in primetime.

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  12/12/2019 - Collector1855 wrote: flawed

  Fully madeirized

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