Domaine Ramonet Bouzeron Aligote 2020 SPDESSERT dried apricots

dried apricots

almost inky red built for the table

Aged 24 months in French and Slavonian oak

energetic white that delivers serious Burgundian character without the Côte d'Or price tag

Domaine Ramonet Bouzeron Aligote 2020 SPDESSERT dried apricotsBouzeron is the only appellation in France that belongs entirely to Aligote a Cote Chalonnaise village that fought to prove the grape could be more than a mixer. Ramonet, a house built on Chassagne Montrachet Chardonnay, picked up a parcel there in 2011; it runs to less than a hectare, so there is never much of this to go around. The wine starts in steel and then goes to barrel for a long elevage, which is unusual for Aligote and largely the point: it