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The Wine Society's Generation Series Bourgogne Aligoté 2022
White Wine from France - Burgundy
This is a bright, mineral example of Burgundy`s aligoté grape. In a warm year, this late-ripening variety produces golden berries but retains its taut and refreshing character, so it is well set to thrive in a post globally warmed environment. It is a wine of the future as well as the present. Restrained and understated, this is beautifully poised and a delight for those who appreciate refreshment over richness. For more on the story of this wine, please scroll down.
Price:
£18.00
Bottle
Price:
£108.00
Case of 6
In Stock
Code: BU87111
Wine characteristics
- White Wine
- 2 - Dry
- Aligote
- 75cl
- Now to 2028
- 12% Alcohol
- no oak influence
- Cork, diam
More on the wine
With some wines getting richer and bigger with global warming, aligoté’s less-is-more style is a welcome counter current. More mineral than fruity with similarities to Muscadet, it is difficult to describe but easy to enjoy. Sylvain Pataille makes some of the best aligotés in Burgundy and we were delighted he agreed to bottle this for us. The grape has a natural tendency to produce large crops, but when made from old vines, like these, and the crop well managed, there is remarkable concentration.
Domaine Sylvain Pataille
Sylvain Pataille is an exciting young grower in Marsannay. He trained as an oenologist in Bordeaux, and still consults to 15 or so domaines in Burgundy. His family had 4ha of vines in 1905, but lost them during difficult financial times. He began in 2001 with 4ha and now has 14ha mainly en fermage, on 25 year rental agreements, which are undergoing conversion to biodynamic cultivation. He makes white from aligoté and a selection of chardonnay rosé, whose skin turns pink when ripe, as well as rosé and red. He aims for very low yields in the reds of 35hl/ha.
The Times
Sylvain Pataille’s meursault taste-alike is crammed with complex, golden, nutty, tangy, minerally oomph.
Decanter
Read moreAligoté has long been overlooked and underestimated, seen merely as a poorer alternative to the reigning Chardonnay. Many Burgundy producers have preservedered in championing the grape and - with a little ...