WTN: A Nice '06 Burg...

Have seen this at Total Wine and thought about picking up a bottle. Didn't know what to do with it just yet, but when rummaging through my scanty (40 btls) Burgundy collection, I ran across this '06 Rapet Savigny-Les-Beaune Aux Fournaux that I had not yet tried. The '06's are drinking good now (with a decant) so with a baked chicken, snow peas, potatoes, and (my recipe) an old fashioned mushroom ragout, with 5 different mushrooms, onions, pearl onions and garlic, I opened the aforementioned wine. Decanted into Pyrex for about an hour. Nice wine. Enjoyed a little while cooking. Classic Burgundy, with black cherries and some earth. Then back into the bottle before dinner. After pouring for dinner, there was a pronounced improvement in the wine, as it opened up to reveal a solid 90-91 point wine with all the mandatory accompaniments of first-rate Burgundy. Great effort here, and more like an '05 than an '06. Patience was rewarded with the decant and about an hour in the glass. Really pretty wine.

I've also been impressed with the few Rapet wines I've tried so far. They have shown particularly nice density. A Savigny-les-Beaune can be quite light, for instance, but it sounds like this one had better than average weight.

Not surprised your "patience" was rewarded! Burgs *always* need breathing time imho. Even the ones that are 40+ years old!