The Pernot 2007 Meursault La Piece Sous Le Bois offers aromas of lightly toasted almond, with poached pear and apple, wreathed with wood smoke. Peach kernel bitterness and chalk – along with the aforementioned smokiness – offer some contrast to the ripe fruit on exhibit here, but with marginally less polish or generosity than the village Puligny. This could use a couple of years in the bottle, and ought to be worth following for 5-7 years. Veteran Paul Pernot followed up his superb though alcoholically outsized 2006s with an equally impressive collection of 2007s that he characterizes as more generous than but in many respects similar to his 2004s. He harvested most of his Chardonnay between the 6th and mid September. This site north of Folatieres is monopolized by Pernot and the Jadot-owned Duc de Magenta domaine. Various import agents, including Jeanne Marie de Champs Selection, Domaines et Saveurs, Beaune; fax 011-33-3-80-25-04-81 and Peter Vezan, Paris; fax 011 33 1 42 55 42 93; as well as various independent importers including Louis/Dressner Selections, New York, NY; tel. (212) 334 8191