Champ de Chene Bourgogne Aligote, 2024

Burgundy's other white grape, from a grower who built his name on it. Crisp, salty and apple-fresh: the glass to open the night with.

Aligote is Burgundy's other white grape, a sibling of Chardonnay that is crisper and leaner. Julien Cruchandeau learned it in Bouzeron, the one village devoted to it, and now makes this from thirty-year-old hillside vines picked at very low yields. Green apple, citrus and white flowers, a little softness from a few months in barrel, and a straight, salty finish. The classic Burgundian aperitif white.