Bourgogne Aligoté, Benjamin Leroux

Bourgogne Aligoté, Benjamin Leroux - 2021

Item # 44090 750mL

This Aligoté has the special privilege of coming from very old vines that are between 80 and 100 years old. Some of the vines come from Bouzeron and the rest from around Meursault. Fermented with native yeasts in older barrels and then aged another year before bottling.

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Color
White
Vintage
2021
Country
France
Region
Burgundy
Producer
Benjamin Leroux
Grape Variety
Aligoté
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Burgundy

The range of wine styles offered in Burgundy rivals that of any other region. In Chablis, Chardonnay is left unoaked to produce lean, crisp, steely wines with incredible acidity - a far cry from the vanilla-oak bombs that so many consumers associate with this grape. Fans of rich, unctuous, and well-oaked Chardonnay will enjoy Chassagne-Montrachet, whose age-worthy offerings offer all the fatness of a California wine, yet retain a very Burgundian, mineral-driven core and great acidity....

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Aligoté

The "other" white grape of Burgundy, Aligoté plays a struggling second fiddle to the regal white grape of the region, Chardonnay. Older Aligoté vines have been known to produce wines of high quality, displaying lovely citrusy and at times nutty characteristics - but even so, the remaining plantings of the grape are fast being uprooted to make even more space for the cultivation of Chardonnay.

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