Sweetly suggestive impressions of peony with plum and black raspberry in the nose of Duboeuf’s flower-labeled 2006 Chiroubles are confirmed on the palate, but there is an effortless lightness and juiciness as well as subtle suggestions of toasted nuts and mineral salts that make the wine’s overall effect anything but simply “jammy.” Enjoy it over the next nine months. Consistent in style and amazingly low in price (but then, this is – sadly –a region in crisis), the myriad Beaujolais bottlings of George Duboeuf represent perennial best values in the American marketplace. That includes wines from a range of domaines with which Duboeuf father and son have long-standing relationships, and which generally cost very little more than do the “Selections Georges Duboeuf” that bear his signature flower labels.Importer: William Deutsch & Son Ltd., White Plains, NY; tel. (914) 251-9463