From young, recently-acquired vines above Chaignots and Bousselots, Chauvenet's 2006 Nuits-St.-Georges Aux Thorey displays a deeper color than the wines in this collection that preceded it, as well as sweeter ripe cherry fruit. Suggestions of blackberry, smoky charred wood, and chalk augment a palate palpably underlain with abundant though fine-grained tannin. The raw materials here are strong - as is the sheer length of finish - but the result is neither as intriguing nor as shapely (if lean) as the corresponding Argillas. Still, I would plan on this, too, being a wine to follow for the next 6-8 years. Hubert Chauvenet professed having been more active than normal in 2006 with punch-downs and pump-overs, in order to compensate for paucity of material, and a certain undertone of bitterness in a few of his lighter-weight 2006s may be explicable on that account.Imported by Robert Kacher Selections, Washington, DC; tel. (202) 832 9083