Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 NO20230712 We highly recommend giving this

We highly recommend giving this bottle a slight chill to elevate its bright fruit notes before pouring it with a charcuterie board or casual weeknight pizza

but with shorter aging and a more immediate

fermented with native yeast and rested on the lees in concrete and glass through the winter before bottling — gravity only

Both were very good vintages with the 2022 being slightly leaner than the more densely frutied ‘23

Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 NO20230712 We highly recommend giving thisTwenty five cases a year, from a tenth of a hectare of vines planted in the 1930s that once belonged to Sylvain Pataille's grandfather hence "au Pp." Pataille has built his reputation arguing that Aligot deserves everything a grower would give Chardonnay, and he works exclusively with Aligot Dor, the golden skinned, low yielding old strain, rather than the productive Vert. The parcel faces east at 250 meters on clay marl studded with small limestone