2018 Vini Viti Vinci Bourgogne-Aligoté Bréau

Community Tasting Notes (2) Avg Score: 90 points

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  4/10/2021 - Elycohn Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Aligote in a sundress. Tropical music and live fire dances. Like reduced clementine syrup with pulp of green mango. Also hot flint, smokey peach and green papaya. Explosive fruit flavors flipping little light switches in your head - sour apricot, syrupy canned peaches, and sweet clementine.

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  6/4/2020 - forceberry wrote: 89 Points

  A naturalist Aligoté fermented and aged in fiberglass tanks. Bottled unfined and unfiltered with a small addition of sulfites. 12,5% alcohol.
  
  Pale, limpid yellow-green color. Lively, fresh and herbal nose with subtly sweet-toned aromas of citrus fruits, some freshly-picked golden apples, a little bit of fragrant spring flowers, light spicy notes and a hint of leesy yeast. The wine feels lively, crisp and light-to-medium-bodied on the palate, yet with a hint of oily viscosity. At first there seems to be a slightest touch of fizzy CO2 that blows off very fast. Somewhat wild flavors of ripe golden apples, some waxy tones, a little bit of grassy herbal character, light mineral notes of cool stones, wild hints of bretty leather and subtly sweet volatile lift and a juicy touch of white peach. Bright high acidity. The finish is crisp, lively and juicy with long, vibrant flavors of tart green apples, some sweet white peach, a little bit of honeydew melon, light stony mineral tones, a hint of bretty funk and a touch of fresh green herbs.
  
  A fun, fresh and lively Aligoté that feels somewhat ripe and weighty at the same time. The style is obviously pretty natural, but the wine still comes across as pretty clean and conventional, not too weird or funky. Tasty stuff, nothing too serious but nothing to be overlooked either. Good complexity for a young Aligoté. Most likely best drunk in its youth. Nice.

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