Aligoté

**Aligoté** is a white grape from Burgundy in eastern France, long overshadowed by Chardonnay but valued for its bracing, no-frills freshness and its role in the classic Kir cocktail. **In the glass** — it tends toward a lean, high-acid style with green apple, lemon, white flowers and a chalky, sometimes slightly herbal edge, usually light-bodied and unoaked. **Where it grows** — its home is the Burgundian side-roads, with its own appellation at Bouzeron and plantings scattered across the Côte and the Hautes-Côtes. It is also grown widely in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet countries, and has a small following among growers elsewhere who prize its zesty acidity. **At the table** — good with oysters, snails in garlic butter, and simple goat cheese. **Cellaring** — mostly made to drink young, though old-vine bottlings from top sites can develop attractively over several years.

Wines

• Blanc Brut — Vitteaut-Alberti
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Domaine Taupenot-Merme
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Jean-Claude Boisset
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Pierre-Yves Colin-Morey
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Roux Père & Fils
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Domaine Jeanson Parigot
• Bourgogne Aligoté — Ballot-Millot & Fils
• Bourgogne Aligoté Les Grands Champs — Domaine Guy Amiot et Fils
• Bourgogne Aligoté Les Grands Champs — Domaine Guy Amiot
• Bourgogne Aligoté Les Moutots — Jean-Claude Boisset
• Bourgogne Aligoté Macération — Athénaïs de Béru
• Bouzeron Les Bouillottes — Domaine Guy Amiot et Fils
• Crémant de Bourgogne Brut — Martenot
• Crémant de Bourgogne Brut — Honoré Louis
• Cuvée Agnès Brut — Vitteaut-Alberti
• La Cardamone Aligoté — Domaine de la Vigne Blanche