it's a Condrieu of lift and detail — apricot and white flowers carried by salinity rather than weight
With several years in bottle it's approachable now
they bottle a broader vision of the valley
A connoisseur's bottle from the Prunotto era that put traditional Barolo on the world map
and harder terrain produce a Pinot Noir with lush ripeness and voluptuous tannins that outpace Champans in richness
Chantereves, Bourgogne Aligote Les Chagniots, 2024 so111621 big spirits offer it's a Condrieu of liftOf Chantereves' four single vineyard Aligotes, Les Chagniots is the outlier the valley floor bottling. It sits between Ladoix and Corgoloin, cut off from surrounding vines by fields of corn and wheat, on deep, rich alluvial soils that give a rounder, more generous style than the high altitude Fussey sites. This was the plot that launched the couple's Aligote collection, planted to old vines that lend concentration. Tomoko Kuriyama and Guillaume Bott