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Now, to the 2006 Burgundies. I have attended four tastings and tasted over 500 wines so I have a good perspective on this vintage. But the very best wines top Grand Cru are still to be released. This is not an easy vintage to appreciate at this stage, that is to say there are a lot of poor wines, some fair wines and some good to very good wines, so be careful.
The whites are fine although not great, I particularly like this style of vintage which is pure and quite lean with good acidity, and very typical of individual terroir. I like these whites because they will age quite well and particulary liked the Chablis and southern Burgundy communes where picking was earlier. There is some clumsy chapitalisation which gives the impression of sweet fruit, and as a result often the wines are unbalanced.
The reds are much harder to understand even for the professional. Again we have the unbalanced wines, and we have some dry mean wines which are unripe. There were some nice Cotes de Beaunes reds at junior level, and at a more serious level one should be very selective. I liked the red wines from Robert Arnoux and Nicolas Potel and de Montille, and the whites from Fevre in Chablis, but I will give a full review when I have finished all the tastings and been to Burgundy in four weeks time.
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