Aligotasting

Utregs Wijnhuis
Tasted Saturday, February 3, 2024 by ThijsV with 74 views

Introduction

Blind tasting of 10 Aligote’s from great producers. The wines has been tasted the day before and given different amounts of air based on the tasting

Flight 1 - Cleansing (1 Note)

Flight 2 - Flight 1 (2 Notes)

  • 2018 Anne Boisson Bourgogne-Aligoté 88 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] Pale yellow greenish in color, medium- intensity with white floral notes, herbs, fire stone, bitter note. A slight chemcial note. Medium+ acidity and medium finish. Thin on the nose and watery on the palate

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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  • 2020 Comte Armand Bourgogne-Aligoté 91 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] Stood next to Anne Boisson’s Aligote. Pale yellow in color, medium intensity, more weight than Anne Boisson; floral, sur lie, bitter note, apple, pear. More concentration. Medium+ aciidty, long finish. Good complexity

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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Flight 3 - Flight 2 (2 Notes)

  • 2020 Pierre Boisson Bourgogne-Aligoté 92 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] This stood next to the Coche Dury Aligote, and this was clearly better. A bit more color than the previous flight (medium yellow) and almost medium+ in intensity on the nose. More concentration with fire stone, pear, peach, melon, some oak? Medium+ acidity, long and evolving finish. Richer, more expressive, more complex. One of my favorites this tasting. 92-93

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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  • 2013 Coche-Dury Bourgogne-Aligoté 90 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] This stood next to Pierre Boisson Aligote 2020 and Pierre Boisson was clearly the better wine. Pale yellow in color with some petrol, white flowers, green apple, some bitter notes. Lean. High acidity, medium+ finish

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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Flight 4 - Flight 3 (2 Notes)

  • 2021 Domaine Fabien Coche Bourgogne-Aligoté Vieilles Vignes 89 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] Very pale in color, with medium intensity with citrus, herbs, unripe conference pear, floral, some flint. Medium+ acidity with a medium+ finish. Softer on the palate than on the nose. Came across as a bit shallow and one-dimensional. 88-89

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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  • 2020 Domaine Nicolas Faure Bourgogne-Aligoté La Corvee de Bully 92 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] If I hadn’t known that all served wines were aligote, I might have easily called Chenin with some age because of the oxidative nature of the wine. Very different from the first 5 aligote’s. Pale yellow in color with medium(+?) intensity with aroma’s of bruised (but fresh) yellow apples, lemon cake, not as much herbs as the others. Medium+ acidity with a long finish. Beautiful mouthfeel. Could also be mistaken for older champagne. 91-92


    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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Flight 5 - Flight 4 (2 Notes)

  • 2021 Charles Lachaux Bourgogne-Aligoté Les Champs d'Argent 93 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] This was my #2 of the night; a brilliant nose and an equally impressive palate! Happy to see that some hypes make sense (although (secondary market) prices do not of course). A slight reductive note, as with Faure some Chenin resemblance. Pear, yellow apple. A lot of concentration. A flavor explosion on the palate, a fresh fruit cocktail, orange peel, freshly squeezed fruit juice. Medium+ acidity, long finish. Great to have been able to taste this, wow

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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  • 2021 Domaine de Cassiopée Bourgogne-Aligoté En Gerlieus 91 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] This stood (up) next to Lachaux Les Champs d’Argent. Also very good, just not as good. Medium+ intensity, also exidative with bruised yellow apple. A bit more stuffing. Bordering on Vin Nature.

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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Flight 6 - Flight 5 (2 Notes)

  • 2019 Jean-Claude Ramonet Bouzeron 93 Points

    France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Bouzeron

    [Tasted blind] This was just outright spectacular (blind) and even more so when bottles were revealed. This was my WOTN over Coche, Lachaux and Leroy, all 5-10 times as expensive. Pale yellow with a green note, medium+ intensity on the nose, quite reductive and with time showing more of its beautiful fruit profile. Very linear and lean. Great concentration. 93+

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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  • 2015 Domaine Leroy Bourgogne-Aligoté 91 Points

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    [Tasted blind] This was very good, but it did not make it into my top-3 of the night. Medium intensity. Very reductive, almost barnyard like. Dough, frites. Great concentration. Very, very long finish

    Part of 10 Aligote’s tasted blind with Anne Boisson, Comte Armand, Pierre Boisson, Coche Dury, Fabien Coche, Nicolas Faure, Charles Lachaux, Cassiopee, Ramonet and Leroy

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Flight 7 - Bonus bottles (5 Notes)

Closing

Very interesting results; for me top 3:
1) Ramonet
2) Lachaux
3) Pierre Boisson

Coche, Leroy and Faure did not make it to the top 3…

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