Review: Nicolas Potel Chablis 2022

September 27, 2024

It’s a mad old world when basic AC Chablis is $80 a bottle. You can get two bottles of grand Aussie Chardonnay for that money (view a few here). Anyway, onwards. Nicolas Potel isn’t involved with Nicolas Potel wines anymore, but the legacy of quality vineyards stands. This Chablis is ripeish, with some yellow peach fruit in the mix, some of the tight, minerally, white clay and oyster shell Chablis character, but the riper peach fruit nags at the edges. It tastes just a little diffuse but pleasant, with stony white fruit and fresh acidity. Not much intensity, hence the low silver medal score, but authentic AC Chablis done pretty well.

THE VERDICT

Best drinking: nowish
Score (out of 20): 17
Score (out of 100): 90
Alcohol %: 12.5
RRP (in $AUD): 80
Winery website: https://www.singlevineyards.com/
Would I buy it?: a few glasses because I love Chablis

2022, Chablis, Chardonnay, Wine

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2 responses to “Review: Nicolas Potel Chablis 2022”

Richard Mills

September 27, 2024 at 1:30 pm

I would agree good Chablis is getting a bit dear but there are very few (if any) Southern Hemisphere wines that produce the chalk/oyster shell flavour profile so symbolic of good Chablis.
And unfortunately most of those are $80+ as well, the exception being Nautilus and Greystone perhaps.

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1. Andrew Graham
  
  September 27, 2024 at 1:39 pm
  
  Almost impossible to to get that oyster shell character anywhere else, true. But when something like the Domenica Chardonnay I was banging on about last week is $55, this for $70 makes zero sense.
  
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