Is it true (Roilette 2006)?

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I just got an email offer from someone who usually deals in high end Bordeaux and Burgundy for 2006 Roilette with an attached review and score of 91 points from Parker.

I'm pretty shocked by that. Is it true?
 
My first thought is will someone shut that guy up, but then I realized that Everyone knows all Beaujolais is crap wine despite what Shnizdlee writes on the wine advocate.

Hopefully nothing to worry about.
 
and here it is..
Wine Advocate # 178
Aug 2008 David Schildknecht 91 Drink - $20-$23 (25)
Fernand and Alain Couderts Clos de la Roilette is the source for some of the most profound and ageworthy wines of Beaujolais (not that they neglect to be refreshing and fun to drink young). Their Cuvee Tardive (which transcends the price ceiling for this report) is meant as the name implies for keeping your hands off for a few years, but even their regular bottling of 2006 Fleurie will be worth following over the next two or three at least. Notes of leather, wood smoke, and forest floor mingling with the ripe cherry and raspberry in the nose signal that something more complex and mysterious is under foot than you will experience in all but a tiny fraction of Gamay-based wine. Generous juiciness on the palate is allied to a slightly grainy, palpable sense of extract and fine-grained tannin, while notes of toasted nut, raw beef, moss, and wet stones well up and add complexity to the wines long finish
 
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