The 2005 Bonnes Mares marries black and red raspberries with fresh- sorbet- and liquer-like aspects alternating on a quite refined polished and for this cru seemingly less-savage than usual palate. Myriad herbs and spices mingle with the fruit and suggestions of wood smoke horehound and sassafras emerge along with the sweet raspberries in a lingering finish that administers a considerable lashing of fine tannin and displays a sappy resinous faintly peppery cling. This is certainly the alter ego of this years cool floral tender Amoureuses. Final choices had been made as to those barrels from Musigny that would be culled to bottle as Chambolle 1er Cru but they represented several as yet unblended lots which I was unable to taste.