Toasted pistachio, rowan, vanilla, and apricot distillate in the nose of Latour-Giraud's 2006 Meursault Les Boucheres leads to a slightly awkward palate with lactose and new wood notes on top of complimentary ripe fruit and stony minerality. This finishes with an intriguing note of iodine more frequently associated with Chablis and which would recur repeatedly this year chez Latour-Giraud. I would wait for a couple of years to revisit and reassess this wine's potential. 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