Burgundy
Bourgogne Aligoté "Clos du Roy" - 2023 - Sylvain Pataille
Domaine Sylvain Pataille
A nose of hawthorn flowers, yellow apple, lime, and grapefruit... A powerful palate, boasting perfectly controlled acidity, tension, and a long finish with beautiful bitter notes. A wine to cellar ideally, but if you are impatient: decant first!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Designation
- Bourgogne Aligoté AOP
- Bottled by
- Sylvain Pataille
- Colour
- White wine
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2026 to 2030
- rock’n’roll
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100% Aligoté, from old vines planted in 1932 on ferruginous soils over white marl, farmed biodynamically and pruned according to the gobelet method. Harvested by hand. Natural vinification without additives: whole bunches are pressed 5-6 hours in a vertical press, then transferred mid-fermentation into old 350-litre barrels for one year, followed by one year in vats. Bottled at the estate without fining or filtration, and just a microdose of sulphur.
Sylvain Pataille
Sylvain Pataille is the winemaker at the helm of his eponymous estate in Marsannay, Burgundy, and quite possibly the revelation of recent years in the sector. A native of the village, he studied at the Beaune wine school and graduated as an oenologist in Bordeaux. Sylvain started from scratch more than 25 years ago... With just 1 hectare in 1999, the estate now covers 17 hectares, almost...
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