Nicolas Potel Chambertin-Clos de Beze 2000 web-unpublished and genuinely fresh — a

and genuinely fresh — a red that stays useful all year

spontaneously fermented and aged in porous fiberglass vats for 8 months

A still-wine drinker's Champagne from one of the Aube's most thoughtful growers

but he'll tell you it's not for the label or the marketing - it's just the best way to express terroir

this brut nature displays elegant restraint: pear

Nicolas Potel Chambertin-Clos de Beze 2000 web-unpublished and genuinely fresh — aWhen Nicolas Potel founded his namesake ngoce in 1997 the same year his father, the legendary Grard Potel of Domaine de la Pousse d'Or, died he opened doors that no other young Burgundian could open. Out of love for Grard, the great vignerons of the Cte let Nicolas come into their cellars and select the barrels he wanted. That access produced a remarkable run of bottlings through the early 2000s, before he sold the business to Labour Roi in 2004, was