White Burgundy lovers are wise to seek out varietals produced from the Aligote grape. Aligote is of course relatively unknown, when compared to the White Burgundy staple : Chardonnay. But with French Chardonnay pricing spikes, David Kohl believes it is likely that Burgundy winemakers will begin to focus more on Aligote as a value-centric alternative to Chardonnay. While Aligote is not widely available on today’s retail shelf, sharp eyed consumers should stay attentive to its availability. #aligotewine #whiteburgundy #burgundywine #valuewines #newwhitewines
So what’s the grapic export talking about today well one of my passions is burgundy I I love and adore burgundy we all know the problems uh there’s some very very expensive burgundies out there and the prices just keep soaring and soaring but I’m always on a lookout for
Value and I’m always on the lookout to share my values with you and today we’re going to talk about an interesting grape that grows in burgundy that nobody really knows too much about but I’m going to explain it’s called borgon aligot and aligot is the second largest planted grape next to Chardonnay in
Burgundy there’s only three grapes that are allowed you also have some Pino Blanc there’re very very small amounts of penino Blanc but aligote has an interesting history I remember back 25 years ago when I would go to burgundy and they would always uh I would taste a
Range of wines they would start with the aligot and of course it wasn’t always a pleasurable wine to me the wine was acidic sharp didn’t have a lot of fruit structure to me I would I would say you know it’s nice wine and back in those
Days even 30 years ago they used to make what was called a cure Royale what is that well they would pour you know glass of aligot in your glass pour some casis or fris from Dion and you would make a nice Kure as an apparati because they
Just felt that you know aligot was in a wine that could stand on its own okay coming here 2023 now this is a wine to pay attention to because a lot of the burgundy producers are really saying well our values are borgon elot we’re going to show you on the map right here
And this is an area right over onto the coot to shalin and when I talk about the kot to shalin which is right here and you see on this map we can go all the way to the top and it’s called buer aligot and this is a producer Paul pilo
Which also is in shna m so Paul does uh they do an interesting uh Paul pilo does an interesting thing they take some parcels of Old Vine aligot from shna and they also blend it into some parcel that they have in the kot shalin to create what is called this aligot and again
This is value so this wine is under 40 $40 a bottle but I I I can tell you that I’ve had some experiences with Alig go uh one time I had a magnum of Alig go from um one of the greatest producers at a friend’s house and uh it was actually
Lauron Pono uh Pono also has Parcels of aligot old Vines I had a magnum that and it just blew me away and and of course the price is is is incredibly inexpensive when you’re talking about all the greatest wines and all the burgundy so this is a wine that I think
That people should pay attention to you’re not going to find it on a lot of retailer shelves but you will find it with some very very smart retail people who know Alig go is a wine that we need to educate people on of course everybody doesn’t know the grapes so but uh with
All the technology you got global warming now you’re getting a lot more ripeness a lot more structure in the wines these are terrific values that I think that everybody should search out you know I’m going to be talking about burgundy because we’re going to be on we’re going on a current trip to
Burgundy and I’m actually going to feature some Alig goes from some other producers because I think it’s a wine that we all should pay attention to especially if we love white burgundy and white burgundy right now is Crazy Prices they keep going up and up this wine
Doesn’t really seem to uh go up too much and because I think that a lot of people just don’t pay attention to this grape and this is the grape Explorer talking about really really classic burgundy