Nicolas Potel Petit Chablis 2022
- 93
- $70
- Drink by: 2024-2030
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‘Petit’ may indicate its junior status to Chablis – Petit Chablis is grown on the less prestigious Chardonnay vineyards compared to Chablis – but don’t let this fool you. Petit Chablis can be an exciting wine in its own right. Hails from a warm vintage but it’s reasonably tightly formed, super dry and quite delicate, so, the message here is, don’t over chill. Inviting lemon rind, crisp apple aromas with white pear and flinty, oyster shell. Gets a little wild on the palate, introducing an attractive savoury edginess which fits in easily with the citrus, apple, stony minerality, dill and splash of wild honey. Good textural appeal, too, depth and length.
Jeni Port is one of Australia’s top wine communicators. Based in Melbourne, Jeni created the first wine column in the (then) Sun News-Pictorial before moving over to The Age and becoming that paper’s longest-serving wine writer. Over the years she has written for most Australian wine magazines and these days calls WinePilot home. She is also a Tasting Panel member on the Halliday Wine Companion. She was named Wine Communicator of the Year and Legend of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in 2014 and in 2018 Legend of the Vine. She is a founding board member of Australian Women In Wine and is the co-deputy chair of Australia’s Wine List of the Year Awards and China’s Wine List of the Year Awards.
