Chevrot's aligoté comes from four parcels planted in 1970 and 1984. Two parcels have a gravel terroir and the other two have a sandstone terroir. The sandstone gives a smokey characteristic to the wine. Many people mistakenly believe that this smokey note comes from oak, but this wine is made in...
100% Aligoté. The de Moors have a 2.5-hectare parcel of mainly Aligoté down the road from their Courgis home and cellar in Chitry-Le-Fort. They planted the parcel starting in 1995 (including some Chard that goes into their Bourgogne Chitry). The exposure is northwest and the soils are clay over...
100% Aligoté from Las Cimas Vineyard on the western edge of the Russian River Valley. This parcel sits on a northeast-facing hillside with sandy clay loam soils over sandstone, quartz, and schist, and is heavily influenced by fog and cool Pacific winds. In the cellar, the fruit was whole-cluster...
Located in the commune of Vosne-Romanée, at the bottom of the slope in very white, marly soils. One quarter of the vines were planted in the 1930's and the rest were planted in the 1990's. Whole clusters directly pressed, indigenous yeast fermentation in barrel. Like the rest of the domaine wines,...
