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Beautifully fragrant Pinot Noir: slightly floral with sweet cherries and raspberries; concentrated red-berry sweetness on the palate; quite mouthfilling and supple, but still showing some youthful tannin and acidity. Long. Drink over the next five years (April 2009) Rating: 92 The Wine Gang - www.thewinegang.com (Apr 2010)

Good deep red. Subtly complex aromas of dark fruits, spices, licorice, leather, mint and bitter chocolate. Altogether sweeter and lusher than the Clos du Roi, conveying an impression of cleaner fruit and greater flavor intensity. Spreads out nicely on the back end, finishing with riper tannins, more length and lingering notes of licorice and mint. Rating: 90 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2009)

Good deep red. Ripe black cherry and smoke on the nose. A step up in sweetness and lushness, with lovely purity and impressive concentration to the flavors of black cherry, dark raspberry and smoke. This is downright silky for the year. Finishes very long and broad, with fine tannins and impressive aromatic persistence. This two-hectare holding produced the "best-looking grapes" in 2006, noted Boillot, who said that little sorting was required here. But due to millerandage, he'll have just 20 barrels in 2006, vs. a normal 40 or 42. For years, this has been one of my go-to wines in restaurants in Burgundy. Rating: 89-92 Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (Mar 2008)