2022 Sylvaine & Alain Normand Aligoté, Burgundy, France
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100% Aligote
Alain Normand hails from the Loire Valley, but his ancestral home is Normandy, hence his name. He met Sylvaine, a Burgundian, in the wine school in Beaune. They began their careers in the early 1990s by taking over an abandoned vineyard in La Roche-Vineuse with a sharecropping contract on 32 acres, a common agricultural practice in France. Vinifications were done in an old stone barn overtop of a hodgepodge of cellars where they aged their wine, just down the road in the village.
From their beginning back in the last century, renting old parcels high on the Roche Vineuse outcropping, Sylvaine and Alain have focused on viticulture, native ferments, and long, gentle ageing– the antithesis of the large co-ops that dominate the Maçonnais. In this century, Sylvaine inherited family vines, including choice parcels in Pouilly-Fuissê, and they moved to fully artisanal farming in the vines. In 2023 following enology studies, their son Thomas joined them.
A mature parcel from vines planted in the 1990's. Racy Aligoté fruit underpinned by zesty spice from extended lees aging.