Ripe pears burst from the glass of the 2001 Meursault-Boucheres. This light to medium-bodied wine offers an enticing, satin-textured personality filled with minerals and candied lemons. Its well-delineated character has excellent to outstanding depth of fruit as well as a long, expressive, focused finish. Anticipated maturity: now-2009. “Nature wasn’t kind to us in 2001,” said Jean-Marc Roulot, this estate’s director and winemaker, “therefore it is a winemaker’s vintage like 1998 was, but of better quality.” According to Roulot, his village parcels, though not the premier crus, were struck by the hail storm of August 2nd, 2001. Importer: Kermit Lynch Wine Merchant, Berkeley, CA; tel. (510) 524-1524