Winemaker Notes
This special Aligoté is well structured, with hints of peaches. The acidity is light, very fresh and lively, not too tannic.
This wine goes well with white cold dishes, charcuterie, terrine or as an aperitif.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
Like a heritage apple variety at a fall farmers’ market, this aligoté has a distinctive character that one judge described pointedly as “not supermarket fruit.” The pear blossom, honeycomb and cider-apple notes follow a clean, refreshing line, the wine’s texture broadened by barrel fermentation and aging for a third of the lot. A fragrant young Burgundy to decant for salmon rillettes.
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Wine Spectator
A fresh, focused white, revealing apple, lemon, vanilla and pastry flavors. Balanced and long, with spice and pastry notes that linger.
A native but unique white grape to Burgundy, Aligoté is a light bodied white that often ends up unfairly lost in Chardonnay’s shadow. In Côte Chalonnaise, in a quaint village named Bouzeron, just south of the Côte de Beaune, Aligoté has its very own appellation where yields are limited in order to enhance flavors, acidity and overall quality. Somm Secret—Curiously, the famous producer, Domaine Ponsot, bottles a 100% Aligoté from its Premier Cru in Morey-Ste-Denis, Les Monts Luisants, made from Aligoté vines planted in 1911.
In Côte Chalonnaise, just south of the Côte de Beaune, the white grape, Aligoté has its very own appellation in the quaint village of Bouzeron. While the grape can grow throughout Burgundy and claim the general Bourgogne Aligoté appellation name, since 1997 Bourgogne Aligoté de Bouzeron has been promoted to its own appellation, simply called Bouzeron.