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Nicolas Potel, Bonnes Mares Grand Cru, 2005

Red Wine from Burgundy, France
by Nicolas Potel
$249.00
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Bonnes-Mares is one of Burgundy's most majestic Grand Crus, straddling Chambolle-Musigny and Morey-Saint-Denis and known for combining Chambolle's perfume with real structure and depth. This bottling comes from Maison Nicolas Potel, the negociant house Potel founded in 1997 that earned a strong reputation for sourcing top sites with a pure, faithful style. The wine is now a genuine library bottle: a 2005, one of the truly great red Burgundy vintages, prized for power, balance and longevity. At two decades old it should be drinking in a lovely mature window, decant and enjoy a special-occasion Grand Cru.

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Burghound

95 points

"A surprisingly high-toned nose that is almost aggressively floral with a cool and reserved character that introduces chewy, focused and linear flavors that are obviously quite firmly structured on the serious, austere and backward finish that is hugely long, indeed it's the longest wine in the entire line-up. That said, it is classic young Bonnes Mares and it will not be a wine given to making friends in its youth."

Antonio Galloni

91 points

"Medium bright red. Aromas of raspberry, mocha, brown spices and underbrush. Dense and rich but not a particularly sweet style. There's wonderfully rich, sexy black raspberry and cassis fruit here but today the texture is a bit muscular, even chunky. This will need time to absorb its new oak. Right now I'm not finding quite the perfumed high tones or finesse of texture this wine showed last year from barrel, but then many 2005s are already beginning to go into a shell." —Stephen Tanzer

Robert Parker

95 points

"Aromas of bright red raspberry and red currant and herbal distillates inform the nose of the Potel 2005 Bonnes Mares. Remarkably smooth and polished on the palate, offering a scintillating display of smoked, peppered meats, tart berries, pungent tobacco and bitter-sweet licorice, this finishes with unusual elegance, refinement and buoyancy for a Bonnes Mares, not to mention for a wine of such sheer intensity. As with so many of the best of Potel’s 2005s, there are certainly ample tannins, but these are exceedingly refined and unobtrusive. I suspect that this is hiding significant incipient complexity and would plan on giving it a decade or more to evolve." —David Schildknecht

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Tasting Notes & Food Pairings

Perfect Pairings

Roast squab, beef tenderloin, truffle dishes, aged Epoisses.

Tasting Profile

Mature Grand Cru Pinot Noir: deep red and black fruit layered with truffle, undergrowth and spice, velvety tannins and the structure of a great vintage. Powerful yet refined.

Wine Details

  • Grape Variety

    Pinot Noir

  • Vintage

    2005

  • Size

    750ml

  • Farming Practice

    Traditional

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