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Henri Clerc Bourgogne Aligote 2016

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100% Aligoté – after Chardonnay, Aligoté is the second most planted white variety in Burgundy – from mainly clay soils. The grapes come from parcels located in the regional area production of Meursault, from estate vineyards conducted in biodynamie. The 70 year old vines are Guyot pruned. The grapes are hand-harvested and sorted. They are lightly pressed in a pneumatic press at a low pressure to get a slow extraction. After a gentle racking of the must, the wine is put into 500l French oak casks (no new oak) for both alcoholic and malolactic fermentations with wild yeasts. It is aged for 10 months, with stirring of the lees. A month before bottling, the different barrels are blended into a stainless steel tank. The wine is finally fined and lightly filtered, and bottling happens on a “fruit day”, following the lunar calendar. Both mineral and rich mouth. – Importer

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Francois Mikulski Aligote 2018

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François’ Mikulski’s father was Lieutenant Mieczyslaw Mikulski who escaped from occupied Poland in 1939, fleeing to England and joining the Resistance troops of the Free Polish Forces. There he met his future wife, a Burgundian woman working on an English army base, and moved to Brussels where François was born and raised. Luckily for us and the world of wine, François spent his formative summers in Burgundy, where he fell in love with the agrarian lifestyle and determined that he would one day make wine himself. He inherited his first plots of Meursault in 1992 from his late uncle, Pierre Boillot. Since that time, he has relentlessly pursued his authenticity, purity and elegance through acute attention to biological balance in the vineyard and terroir minded élevage practices in the cellar. After meticulous sorting in the vineyards the grapes are de-stemmed and lightly pressed. Natural yeasts are used in the fermentation after which the wines undergo an élevage 10-12 months. François typically restrains his new oak use to about 20%, believing that excessive wood masks full expression of the terroir. -Winery

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Pierre Morey Bourgogne Aligote 2018

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Carefully cared for throughout the campaign, healthy and ripe, harvested manually, the grapes are delicately transported to their place of vinification and aging: old vaulted Burgundy cellars where the natural yeasts of the vineyard promote the fermentation process. -Winery

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Dominique Lafon Bourgogne Aligote 2018

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Aligote is the white grape grown in Burgundy that you may have never heard of. This dense but very minerally white wine is the hidden gem in one of the most expensive white wine regions in the world.

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