Chantereves, Bourgogne Aligote Mainbey, 2024 so022525 Barge more concentrated recent Bordeaux vintages

more concentrated recent Bordeaux vintages

herbaceous

With the Edges of Burgundy under pricing pressure

Alexandre Giquel works his Vouvray vineyards with horses and organic principles

Four years on

Chantereves, Bourgogne Aligote Mainbey, 2024 so022525 Barge more concentrated recent Bordeaux vintagesMainbey is the stony one. This Aligote comes off a valley slope beside the Hautes Cotes village of Fussey at around 470 meters, where the soil is littered with big blocks of limestone the kind of rocky, low vigor site that concentrates flavor and drives minerality. The vines were planted in 1980, adding depth to the equation. Mainbey is the largest holding Chantereves farms, mostly Chardonnay with a single Aligote parcel carved out here. Tomoko