Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote 2023 Durand creamy touch from the lactose

creamy touch from the lactose addition

Prepare to have your senses dunked on

and juicy peach

held steady acidity through a warm

high-acid Champagne like this wants food with fat or salt to push against

Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote 2023 Durand creamy touch from the lactoseThe Land Aligote is Burgundy's other white grape, the one long dismissed as thin and sour, fit only for splashing into a Kir. Sylvain Pataille has done more than anyone to prove that reputation wrong. His Bourgogne Aligote comes from old vines around Marsannay at the northern end of the Cote de Nuits, split between two sites: Champ Forey, on limestone and gravel, and Auvonnes, on clay and marl studded with small stones. That same limestone and marl