Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Les Champ Forey 2022 Wine Bar | Featured White Old-vine Mencía from Bierzo—the collaboration

Old-vine Mencía from Bierzo—the collaboration between Álvaro Palacios (of Priorat fame) and his nephew Ricardo Pérez Palacios

herbaceous nose of candied citrus and stone fruit

Savagnin is the Jura's great native white grape

which leaves a faint prickle of CO2 and a wine built on crunch rather than tannic architecture

age-worthy bottle from a house synonymous with quality

Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Les Champ Forey 2022 Wine Bar | Featured White Old-vine Mencía from Bierzo—the collaborationGoblet trained vines planted between 1932 and 1961, packed at 14,000 per hectare nearly half again the standard Burgundian density on gravelly limestone facing east at 250 meters. Champ Forey is one of the single site Aligots that made Sylvain Pataille's name: he farms and vinifies the grape exactly as a grower would treat Chardonnay, and works only with Aligot Dor, the golden skinned old strain rather than the high yielding Vert. Certified organic