Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 NO20230705 2013 and even 2014 to

2013 and even 2014 to bring vivacity and tension to the blend

the flavor is rich and bittersweet

survivors of an isolated terroir that time forgot—protected from industrial viticulture precisely because Itata was dismissed as a backwater for decades

a white Champagne made entirely from black grapes

Francois Carillon's family has grown Chardonnay in Puligny-Montrachet for generations — he and his brother split the old family domaine in 2010 — and this Bourgogne Blanc comes from vines just outside the village appellation line

Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 NO20230705 2013 and even 2014 toThis is a beer. Read that again, because the label says Aligot and the bottle looks every inch like wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in Lucinges, an alpine village in the Haute Savoie between Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva, using spring water from the same aquifer that feeds Evian. Their "vigneronnes" are the wild ones: spontaneously fermented beers aged for months in old barrels on the grape lees of winemaker friends. This one lives on Aligot lees, and