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Labouré-Roi, Pouilly Fuissé (Burgundy, France) Vieilles Vignes Reserve 2006 ($30, Palm Bay Imports) 
Labouré-Roi is a Burgundy negociant house that seems to be improving quite notably in the quality of its wines in recent years, and hence a name well worth remembering.
This high-end bottling of Pouilly Fuissé has the soft, rounded profile that you'd expect from this most famous village in Mâcon, but it also shows the refinement and the high-class oak you'd associate more with a wine from the Côte d'Or.
Fruit notes recalling baked apples are nicely framed and firmed by toasty, spicy oak notes, with fresh acidity providing needed lift for this relatively rich wine.
90 - Michael Franz
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Reserve Wine: What Does It Mean?
Ever wonder what it means when a vineyard marks a wine as being "Reserve"? It might just depend on where the wine is from...
In Italy and Spain, the word "reserve" means that a wine has been aged longer than other wines before being released by the winery. The implication is that the wine was of better quality -- meaning that it "deserved" the extra aging -- and that it will be of better quality than the winery's other wines.
In France, though the word "reserve" isn't regulated as it is in Italy and Spain, a wine marked as "reserve" generally is better in quality than a given winery's norm.
In the U.S., historically, vineyards have used the word in the same vein; unfortunately, these days the word is often used by U.S. winemakers even when the wine isn't of better quality. In general, the more reputable the producer, the more likely the term "reserve" has a genuine meaning.
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