2023 Benjamin Leroux Bourgogne Aligoté, Burgundy, France Bernhard Ott 6% Sangiovese & 4% Grenache

6% Sangiovese & 4% Grenache

the grapes spend a short time on the skins

To make this batch he harvested four large

250-to-350-liter clay amphorae or tinajas (crafted by J

hillside vineyard located at the western headwaters of the Russian River Valley (which is in fact in Mendo County)

2023 Benjamin Leroux Bourgogne Aligoté, Burgundy, France Bernhard Ott 6% Sangiovese & 4% GrenacheBenjamin first made this wine in 2016, using exclusively old Aligot Dor vines from Bouzeron. The following year he included Aligot from a newly acquired vineyard worked by the Leroux team. Today, he farms two parcels half of which are 80 to 100 years old, and the other half around 30 years old. Directly pressed, settling before transfer to older oak barrels for indigenous yeast fermentation. Aged for 12 months, fined and or filtered if necessary.