The Morot 2006 Beaune Toussaints smells vividly of rose hips; offers tart cherry and red currant fruit livelier and higher-toned than that of the corresponding Cent Vignes; and finishes with a clean, raw meat carnal dimension, accompanied by pleasant hints of cherry pit and chalk, and a faint but for now at least unobtrusive dry spot. Choppin de Janvry points out that fresh fruit acidity is nearly always strongly expressed in this site. I would anticipate this wine's being more enjoyable in 2010 and good for another year or two in bottle thereafter. After waiting to harvest until only the last four or five days of September, Geoffrey Choppin de Janvry reports having done a rigorous sorting and ultimately assembling his 2006s earlier than usual – in February, with bottling a month later – in order to preserve fruit. Imported by Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832 9083

Very mineral and structured, this is a wine that needs aging. The tannins at this stage are firm, dry, dense, forming a solid core. Around this floats the red cherry and red currant fruit flavors, just sweet and lifted by acidity, Give it at least five years.——R.V.(10/1/2009)—— 94