Lightly-cooked red raspberry and ginger; blond tobacco; and faded iris perfume on the nose of Camille Giroud’s 2008 Corton Rognets usher in a ripe, rich, silken-textured palate. Brown spices, tobacco, fruit pit, and sweet cherry fruit are fresh in the nose. This is followed by a long finish with a fine sense of interplay as the wine took on air. Highest in natural sugar of its collection (at around 13.5% potential), it should be worth following for at least 10-12 years. David Croix’s 2008 Camille Giroud collection was picked late; slow to evolve; and for the most part had not been bottled when I tasted in April. Although I missed out on a couple of wines in this year’s collection, the line-up from Camille Giroud was also smaller than in previous years. (I have not tasted the 2007s here. For details about the recent revival of Camille Giroud and about David Croix’s approach, readers are referred to reports in issues 160 and 170 respectively; and for reports on Croix’s own domaine, see under Domaine des Croix.) A Becky Wasserman Selection, Le Serbet (various importers); fax 011-333-80-24-29-70