Latour-Giraud's 2006 Meursault Narvaux offers generous, juicy apricot and yellow plum fruit, accented with chalk, salts, and bright citrus. Silken in texture, luscious and refined, this exhibits greater focus and clarity than many wines this year's collection, perhaps in part reflecting a healthiness of fruit and an acid balance borne of its high, breezy elevation and fast-draining, stony soil. I would expect this to mature fascinatingly for at least the next 4-5 years. Jean-Pierre Latour was one of those growers who got a jump on the 2006 ban de vendange in an effort to preserve freshness and clarity of fruit (although on that score, he professes to prefer his 2005s). The 2006 collection was slow to ferment and to undergo malo-lactic transformation; and from tank immediately before bottling, many wines struck me as somewhat disjointed and/or awkwardly marked by milk and new wood. Various importers, including Bayfield Importing, Long Island, NY (718)482 0200; Classic Wine Imports, Norwood, MA, tel. (781) 352 1100; and Stacole Fine Wines, Boca Raton, FL; tel. (561) 998 0029

Latour-Giraud's 2006 Meursault Narvaux offers generous, juicy apricot and yellow plum fruit, accented with chalk, salts, and bright citrus. Silken in texture, luscious and refined, this exhibits greater focus and clarity than many wines this year's collection, perhaps in part reflecting a healthiness of fruit and an acid balance borne of its high, breezy elevation and fast-draining, stony soil. I would expect this to mature fascinatingly for at least the next 4-5 years. Jean-Pierre Latour was one of those growers who got a jump on the 2006 ban de vendange in an effort to preserve freshness and clarity of fruit (although on that score, he professes to prefer his 2005s). The 2006 collection was slow to ferment and to undergo malo-lactic transformation; and from tank immediately before bottling, many wines struck me as somewhat disjointed and/or awkwardly marked by milk and new wood.Various importers, including Bayfield Importing, Long Island, NY (718)482 0200; Classic Wine Imports, Norwood, MA, tel. (781) 352 1100; and Stacole Fine Wines, Boca Raton, FL; tel. (561) 998 0029