Nicolas Potel Chablis 2022
- 93
- $80
- Drink by: 2024-2034
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This is the step-up in reputation for Nicolas Potel’s Chablis (well, everyone’s Chablis with Petit Chablis sitting the rank below standard Chablis), yet the difference in price is minimal. Don’t hesitate to take advantage. A gleaming pale gold. This wine offers a fraction more depth and concentration than the Petit. There are also very early hints of the complexity to come. A wine with balance, the flavours of apricots and peaches especially, are to the fore. There is a hint of a chalky backing, with some spices and a lingering finish – this has a decade of good drinking ahead of it.
Ken was born and bred in Brisbane, Queensland. He had a non-trendy, perfectly happy childhood, in a family convinced alcohol meant instant condemnation to Hades. But a break fishing on the Great Barrier Reef, and some good wine, started a serious obsession that eventually took over. It did not stop Ken being chastised later for drinking Pol champagne, disgusted he’d drink anything made by a Cambodian dictator. Now, Ken mostly writes on wine, champagne and spirits for various newspapers, magazines and books, but is perhaps best known for his work in The Courier Mail. He also has a little sideline writing on cigars, fishing, travel and food. When not writing, fly-fishing for trout in NZ or bonefish on the flats of Cuba, travelling or smoking cigars, he is no doubt following a variety of sporting teams – the occasionally glorious Queensland Reds rugby, the dysfunctional Washington Redskins, the dodgy Arsenal and especially revels in the world restored to its proper axis with the return of the Ashes to their rightful home.
