2007 Bourgogne Aligote Blind Tasting

Tasted Thursday, June 3, 2010 by brooklynguy with 741 views

Introduction

Too bad the Lafarge and the De Moor showed so poorly, but even so, it seems as though there isn't much more to Aligote than one might imagine.

Flight 1 (4 Notes)

  • 2007 Domaine Roulot Bourgogne-Aligoté

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    it dropped off like a hot potato during our dinner. But during the tasting I liked its lean and stony profile and its pungent lemon scent. It was clean and acidic and very long, and I was certain that it was the next wine. The others thought it was too creamy, too correct, with some artifice. Joe found the finish to be short - it grinds to a halt, he said.

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  • 2007 Domaine Nadine et Rémi Marcillet Bourgogne-Aligoté

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    Scott thought this wine showed a lot of funk on the nose, that it was woodsy. Justin thought it was complex with woodsy and floral honey flavors, but also a bit murky on the finish. Joe and I both found it to be oxidized on the nose. He liked the expansive mid-palate, but he called it fundamentally flawed. I simply assumed from the nose that it was past its prime.

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  • 2007 Alice et Olivier De Moor Bourgogne-Aligoté

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    Joe said that although it was an outlier, he liked it anyway, and that it reminded him of northern Burgundy near Chablis - Kimmeridgian soils. I wanted to like it but I thought the nose had an oxidized quality that just turned me off, made the wine seem flat and lifeless. That said, I thought it was interestingly herbal - kind of minty, with lemon curd and herbal flavors, and a stony finish. Scott said that he initially didn;t care for it but that it grew on him. We all agreed, drinking this wine with dinner, that it was an off bottle. Perhaps not flawed, but not representative of the great '07 de Moor Aligoté. In 2007 the de Moors combined their young vines Aligoté with their Plantation 1902, a beautiful Aligoté made from 100 year old vines. This bottle was not representative of the wine.

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  • 2007 Domaine Michel Lafarge Bourgogne-Aligoté Raisins Dorés

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    everyone knows how good this wine is, but this bottle was simply not right. The mid-palate was hollow, and it just wasn't very expressive. joe thought it was the least together of all of the wines, with a darkness to the mineral finish. Justin thought the alcohol protruded a bit, and Scott thought it didn't carry its wood well. But trust me, this is a really good wine, and the bottle we had just showed terribly.

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Flight 2 (4 Notes)

  • 2007 A. et P. de Villaine Aligoté Bouzeron

    France, Burgundy, Côte Chalonnaise, Bouzeron

    showed white flowers and a bit of honey, well balanced and well made, although everyone thought that it was a bit inconsequential, simple. It was better over dinner, but still not a wine to race to the stores for.

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  • 2007 Catherine & Dominique Derain Vin de France Allez-Goutons

    France, Vin de France

    I really liked this one - it was just ever so slightly effervescent and at 11% alcohol, it was light and lively,with grapefruit pith on the nose. The palate was delicate and sheer, and very satisfying. Some thought it was too much about natural wine making. It was the only wine that held up well the next day. This is something that I would enjoy drinking again, but it is probably more divisive than any of the other wines we drank.

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  • 2007 Domaine Ramonet Bourgogne-Aligoté

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    I liked it because it smelled like Chardonnay, it was bigger and bolder than the other wines, and it had a lovely pungent minty nose. Scott thought it was the most complete wine. Justin thought the nose was great, with granite, rock, and soil. Joe felt that it was beefed up a bit. somehow made larger than it would naturally be. He felt a wood presence intruded on the wine. For whatever it's worth, this wine did not maintain its goodness over dinner - by the time we ate it seemed disjointed and inflated like an air balloon.

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  • 2007 Paul Pillot Bourgogne-Aligoté

    France, Burgundy, Bourgogne-Aligoté

    Joe and Justin both picked this wine as their favorites of the tasting, and Scott and I liked it too. Justin said that it was lactic at first, but that the fruit and acid balance was great, and he found himself thinking that he really wanted to drink it. Joe said that this wine rocked in the context of the tasting. It was well detailed with flowers and he appreciated the nature of the acidity - he said that most of the wines in the tasting showed acidity at the edges, but in this wine the acidity formed the core of the wine. I liked it too - my notes say apples, soft and pure, balanced, stones on the finish. The thing is, this wine was, to be honest and fair, kind of disgusting a half hour later over dinner. It completely fell off the table and became something that we were mystified about. How could it have been so good in a blind tasting and then been so bad while eating?

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