and harder terrain produce a Pinot Noir with lush ripeness and voluptuous tannins that outpace Champans in richness
they bottle a broader vision of the valley
With several years in bottle it's approachable now
This Kabinett shows why the effort is worth it: a light
it's a Condrieu of lift and detail — apricot and white flowers carried by salinity rather than weight
Chantereves, Bourgogne Aligote Les Chagniots, 2024 so111621 big spirits offer and harder terrain produce aOf 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