The Camille Giroud 2006 Beaune Cent-Vignes smells site-typically of cherry, cherry pit, and almond extract, along with hints of mint and game. Fresh-fruited, cool, and restrained on the palate, with underlying suggestions of wet stone, it finishes with saliva-inducing savor, promising considerable immediate appeal and 4-5 years of further satisfaction. David Croix racked his 2006s into tank earlier than normal in an attempt to preserve the maximum of fruit. (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. A Gevrey-Chambertin En Champs was too reduced from tank when I last tasted it to adequately access, but it definitely displayed potential and reflected its old vines of a tiny-berried selection; while a Clos Vougeot from purchased fruit was stuck in protracted malo.) A Becky Wasserman Selection, Le Serbet (various importers); fax 011-333-80-24-29-70