Chantereves, Bourgogne Aligote Les Chagniots, 2024

Of 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 farm organically and vinify with a light hand: whole-bunch pressing, wild yeast, barrel and lees aging, and next to no sulfur. The result is the most open and fleshy of the family, without losing Aligote's signature cut.