In bottle for only ten days, the 2005 Beaune Greves offers bright, fresh black raspberry aromas backed by floral and crushed stone suggestions. It manifests excellent intensity and brightness, a very active personality, and a stark contrast with the sweet, creamy richness of the Clos de la Figuine. There is a flattering glyceral component but the fruit is crystal clear and transparent, and a shimmering complexity of mineral and floral nuances comes through despite a slight perturbation from the recent bottling. Nearly all bottlings from this negociant – on an upward path since the influx of Rodet capital in the early ‘90s – in fact originate in the Domaine Jacques Prieur. Martin Prieur and his team have striven to capture purity of fruit through gentle extraction, although for my taste I found some of their 2005s overly confectionary due to the influence of toasty new wood on already very sweetly ripe raw material. After malo – which was generally quite late here this year – the wines were sulfured but not yet racked. Importer: Frederick Wildman & Sons, New York, NY; tel. (212) 355-0700.