The Winery Nicolas Potel of Nuits-Saint-Georges of Burgundy

Winery Nicolas Potel - Aloxe-Corton 1er Cru 'Les Valozières'
The winery offers 229 different wines
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Its wines get an average rating of 3.8.
It is ranked in the top 15 of the estates of Burgundy.
It is located in Nuits-Saint-Georges in the region of Burgundy

The Winery Nicolas Potel is one of the world's great estates. It offers 229 wines for sale in of Nuits-Saint-Georges to come and discover on site or to buy online.

Top Winery Nicolas Potel wines

Looking for the best Winery Nicolas Potel wines in Nuits-Saint-Georges among all the wines in the region? Check out our tops of the best red, white or effervescent Winery Nicolas Potel wines. Also find some food and wine pairings that may be suitable with the wines from this area. Learn more about the region and the Winery Nicolas Potel wines with technical and enological descriptions.

The top red wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

Food and wine pairings with a red wine of Winery Nicolas Potel

How Winery Nicolas Potel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef, veal or game (deer, venison) such as recipes of roast beef in a crust, vital tone / vitello tonnato (italy) or duck fillets with honey.

Organoleptic analysis of red wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

On the nose the red wine of Winery Nicolas Potel. often reveals types of flavors of earth, red currant or jam and sometimes also flavors of red cherry, pepper or black fruits. In the mouth the red wine of Winery Nicolas Potel. is a with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the red wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

  • 1999With an average score of 4.25/5
  • 2000With an average score of 4.23/5
  • 2002With an average score of 4.15/5
  • 2003With an average score of 4.12/5
  • 2005With an average score of 4.06/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.06/5

The grape varieties most used in the red wines of Winery Nicolas Potel.

  • Pinot Noir
  • Gamay

Discovering the wine region of Nuits-Saint-Georges

Nuits-Saint-Georges is a town in eastern Burgundy which gives its name to the Côte de Nuits, the Northern half of the Côte d'Or wine district. It is known for relatively Powerful, Complex red wines from the Pinot Noir grape variety. This represents 97 percent of production, with a small amount of white wine made from Chardonnay. In terms of surface area, with 320 hectares (790 acres) of Village and premier cru Vineyards, Nuits-Saint-Georges is the second largest of the 26 commune titles in the Côte d'Or, fractionally smaller than Beaune.

There are also around 315 hectares (778 acres) of vineyards within its boundaries which produce regional wines. In addition to covering land immediately north and South of the town, the appellation also includes the vineyards of its neighbor, Premeaux Prissey, where one-quarter of the premier cru climats are located. There are 41 premier cru climats belonging to the appellation; wines made from their grapes, and conforming to the strictest of the Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation rules, may claim the title Nuits-Saint-Georges Premier Cru. While the town does not boast any grand cru sites, its many premier cru vineyards are rated among the finest in the district.

Although Dijon, to the north, is Burgundy's administrative Center, and Beaune, to the south, is the wine capital, Nuits-Saint-Georges holds its own as an important viticultural location. Many long-established wine merchants and negociants have made their businesses and homes here. The town has had its own Nuits-Saint-Georges appellation since September 1936, but has been the source of respected red wines for the best Part of a millennium. The Saint-Georges vineyard, in particular, just south of the town, has been known as a source of excellent wines by locals and royalty alike for many hundreds of years.

The top white wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

Food and wine pairings with a white wine of Winery Nicolas Potel

How Winery Nicolas Potel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of pasta, rich fish (salmon, tuna etc) or shellfish such as recipes of pasta with lemon and comté cheese, croque-monsieur with tuna or marinated mussels with parsley.

Organoleptic analysis of white wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

On the nose the white wine of Winery Nicolas Potel. often reveals types of flavors of pineapple, stone or oak and sometimes also flavors of tree fruit, citrus fruit or red fruit. In the mouth the white wine of Winery Nicolas Potel. is a powerful with a nice freshness.

The best vintages in the white wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

  • 1985With an average score of 4.40/5
  • 2006With an average score of 4.21/5
  • 2008With an average score of 4.08/5
  • 2003With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2007With an average score of 3.90/5
  • 2018With an average score of 3.84/5

The grape varieties most used in the white wines of Winery Nicolas Potel.

  • Chardonnay
  • Aligoté

Discover the grape variety: Pinot noir

Pinot noir is an important red grape variety in Burgundy and Champagne, and its reputation is well known! Great wines such as the Domaine de la Romanée Conti elaborate their wines from this famous grape variety, and make it a great variety. When properly vinified, pinot noit produces red wines of great finesse, with a wide range of aromas depending on its advancement (fruit, undergrowth, leather). it is also the only red grape variety authorized in Alsace. Pinot Noir is not easily cultivated beyond our borders, although it has enjoyed some success in Oregon, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.

The top pink wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

Food and wine pairings with a pink wine of Winery Nicolas Potel

How Winery Nicolas Potel wines pair with each other generally quite well with dishes of beef such as recipes of beef stew express.

The best vintages in the pink wines of Winery Nicolas Potel

  • 2018With an average score of 3.60/5

The grape varieties most used in the pink wines of Winery Nicolas Potel.

  • Gamay

The word of the wine: Muscat blanc à petits grains

A white grape variety cultivated since antiquity on the shores of the Mediterranean, it is considered the noblest of the muscats. It is mainly used to make sweet wines, often from mutage. In France, it is the sole variety used in many natural sweet wines: muscat-de-frontignan, muscat-de-mireval, muscat-de-lunel, muscat-de-saint-jean-de-minervois, muscat-de-beaumes-de-venise, muscat-du-cap-corse. Combined with Muscat d'Alexandrie, it gives Muscat-de-Rivesaltes. It is also used to make sparkling white wines (clairette-de-die; moscato d'asti and asti spumante in Italy) and dry wines (alsace-muscat). Powerfully aromatic and complex, its wines evoke fresh grapes, roses, exotic fruits, citrus fruits and spices.

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Discover the grape variety: Aligoté

Aligoté is an ancient Burgundian grape variety (it has different names depending on the region in which it is grown: griset blanc in Beaune, giboudot blanc in the Chalonnais or troyen blanc in the Aube), mainly used in the production of Bourgogne-Aligoté, Bouzeron and Crémant-de-Bourgogne.aligoté is a medium-fine white grape variety, quite productive, which gives clear, acidic, fresh and light white wines. An anecdote often says that it was a member of the clergy named Kir who gave it its letters of nobility by adding it to blackcurrant cream to prepare an aperitif.produced on more than 1,600 hectares in Burgundy, aligoté has also been exported. It is also cultivated in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Romania), California, Canada and Chile, representing more than 20,000 hectares in the world.

News about Winery Nicolas Potel and wines from the region

Cambridge University’s King’s College earns £1.3m by auctioning off rare Burgundies

The ‘Generations of Jayer’ collection included 42 lots of some of the finest Burgundies ever bottled. A 12-bottle case of Grand Cru Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 1999 from Côte de Nuits led the charge, selling for £100,000 at the London auction. The second priciest lot was the Henri Jayer for Georges Jayer, Echézeaux 2001, which received a winning bid of £85,000. Henri Jayer was dubbed the ‘godfather of Burgundy’ after pioneering a range of key innovations in the region. He believed t ...

Burgundy’s Charles Lachaux signs deal with Crurated club

The deal will see small-production wines of the Charles Lachaux négoce business offered exclusively to Crurated members, the new partners announced. Bottles will still be distributed separately to restaurants in several markets, they added. Lachaux is considered an exciting talent in a younger generation of Burgundy winemakers. Alongside overseeing viticultural changes at his family’s Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux in recent years, he launched his namesake micro-négoce business in 2018. From 25 July, th ...

An overview of Morey Saint Denis appellation

The Bourgogne Wine Board (BIVB) invites you to a survey above the vineyard of Morey-Saint-Denis, typical of the côte de Nuits region. Situated at the center of this region, the vineyard neighbours the appellation Gevrey-Chambertin to the north and Chambolle-Musigny to the south. Our social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BourgogneWines​​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BourgogneWines/​​​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vinsdebourgogne/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bivb ...

The word of the wine: Muscat blanc à petits grains

A white grape variety cultivated since antiquity on the shores of the Mediterranean, it is considered the noblest of the muscats. It is mainly used to make sweet wines, often from mutage. In France, it is the sole variety used in many natural sweet wines: muscat-de-frontignan, muscat-de-mireval, muscat-de-lunel, muscat-de-saint-jean-de-minervois, muscat-de-beaumes-de-venise, muscat-du-cap-corse. Combined with Muscat d'Alexandrie, it gives Muscat-de-Rivesaltes. It is also used to make sparkling white wines (clairette-de-die; moscato d'asti and asti spumante in Italy) and dry wines (alsace-muscat). Powerfully aromatic and complex, its wines evoke fresh grapes, roses, exotic fruits, citrus fruits and spices.