The medium-to-dark ruby-colored Beaune Cents Vignes has a sweet raspberry and black cherry-scented nose as well as a well-crafted, refined, and medium-bodied character. This wine is structured and tannic and is redolent with strawberry and raspberry fruit. I suggest drinking it between 1999 and 2003. Vincent Bitouzet crafted marvelous 1996s, capturing this vintage's succulent fruit. Unlike most vignerons with whom I spoke, Bitouzet reported that his wines' malos took place normally, and were not retarded. He did not heat the cellars or use malo-inducing artificial yeasts, attributing the rapid malo-lactic fermentation to the fact that little sulphur was used during vinification. Importer: Neil Rosenthal, Select Vineyards, Shekomeko, NY; Tel (800) 910-1990.

The medium-to-dark ruby-colored Beaune Cents Vignes has a sweet raspberry and black cherry-scented nose as well as a well-crafted, refined, and medium-bodied character. This wine is structured and tannic and is redolent with strawberry and raspberry fruit. I suggest drinking it between 1999 and 2003.Vincent Bitouzet crafted marvelous 1996s, capturing this vintage's succulent fruit. Unlike most vignerons with whom I spoke, Bitouzet reported that his wines' malos took place normally, and were not retarded. He did not heat the cellars or use malo-inducing artificial yeasts, attributing the rapid malo-lactic fermentation to the fact that little sulphur was used during vinification.Importer: Neil Rosenthal, Select Vineyards, Shekomeko, NY; Tel (800) 910-1990.