The elegant 2006 Beaune 1er cru Clos de La Mousse from Maison Bouchard Père & Fils shows a beautiful violet-tinted garnet colour. The expressive yet delicate peony and woodland notes, doubled with touches of fur and mocha provide for an interestingly complex nose. To the palate, this Beaune 1er Cru is savoury, delicate and silky: a gorgeous bottle with great cellar potential.
From their monopole south of Teurons, Bouchard's 2006 Beaune Clos de al Mousse displays herbal, bitter-sweet floral, and fungal aromas; comes to the palate with considerably subtlety and diversity of flavor as well as textural refinement; and offers a persistent, complex sense of interplay between chalky, herbal, floral, black fruit, fungal, and forest floor elements. I suspect this will be well worth following for half a dozen years.