Charles Lachaux Bourgogne Aligote Les Champs d'Argent 2019

  • 92 Robert
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2019

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750ML

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Located in the commune of Vosne-Romanée, at the bottom of the slope. Very white, marly soils. Whole clusters directly pressed, indigenous yeast fermentationin barrel. Like the rest of the domaine wines, the vines are not hedged and farming follows biodynamic agriculture. Aged for 12 months in barrel (no new oak),unfined, unfiltered.

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  • 92
    Cropped at 34.2 hectoliters per hectare, Lachaux's 2019 Bourgogne Aligoté Les Champs d’Argent is even better than its 2018 predecessor, offering up aromas of pear, white flowers, citrus zest and pastry cream. Medium to full-bodied, lively and incisive, it's bright and concentrated, with chalky structuring dry extract and a tangy spine of acidity.

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Charles Lachaux

Charles Lachaux

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Charles Lachaux, France
Charles Lachaux from Domaine Arnoux-Lachaux started his micro-négoce because of Aligoté. On several occasions, he had blind tasted d’Auvenay’s Aligoté Sous Châtelet alongside serious premier and grand cru chardonnays. Sometimes it trounced the other whites; sometimes it was a least in the same league —always, it was up there. The Arnoux family owns Aligoté and used to bottle it. But at some point it was deemed unworthy and the grapes were sold off to négociants. Charles wanted to vinify those grapes again. In addition to the Aligoté, the début for the Charles Lachaux label included five wines. Only the Aligoté is owned, and the fruit for the other wines is purchased from friends with conscientious farming practices. Incidentally, the label was designed by Charles’ wife Louise who is a graphic designer. The rose is for the couple’s eldest daughter Rose. With one exception, there are no noteworthy differences in winemaking between the Charles Lachaux and Arnoux-Lachaux wines. The exception is ageing. The Charles Lachaux wines are bottled after a little less than a year as opposed to 18 months for the domaine wines. This difference does have an impact. The négoce wines are fruit-driven, caught before their stay in oak leaves noticeable patina —vins de soif. Of course, they’re still from Burgundy and can age. But the goal is immediate pleasure. All the grapes are picked by the Lachaux team. All the wines, including the Aligoté, are pressed in a vertical press. Fermentations are with ambient yeasts. There are no additions of sulfur until after malo. The reds are 100% whole cluster. Macerations are noteworthy for their brevity. They are also noteworthy for their lack of extraction. There is a daily pump over. The reds are aged in older barrels with the exception of the Nuits Saint Georges 1er Cru les Boudots and the Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru les Suchots, each having one new Stockinger barrel, or 20% of the cuvées. Total sulfur at bottling ranges between 23 and 38ppm. In the domaine’s vineyards, Charles has become the single most progressive vigneron in the region — no one had yet had the courage to try no till. In the winery, the crunch, precision, soul, and transparency of the wines, whether from the domaine or the négoce, is magical.
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A native but unique white grape to Burgundy, Aligoté is a light bodied white that often ends up unfairly lost in Chardonnay’s shadow. In Côte Chalonnaise, in a quaint village named Bouzeron, just south of the Côte de Beaune, Aligoté has its very own appellation where yields are limited in order to enhance flavors, acidity and overall quality. Somm Secret—Curiously, the famous producer, Domaine Ponsot, bottles a 100% Aligoté from its Premier Cru in Morey-Ste-Denis, Les Monts Luisants, made from Aligoté vines planted in 1911.

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Cote de Nuits Wine

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The origin of perhaps the world’s very finest Pinot Noir, Côte de Nuits is the northern half of the Côte d'Or and includes the famous wine villages of Gevrey-Chambertin, Morey-St-Denis, Chambolle-Musigny, Vougeot, Vosne-Romanée, Flagey-Echezeaux and Nuits-St-Georges.

Fine whites from Chardonnay are certainly found in the Côte de Nuits, but with much less frequency than top-performing reds made of Pinot noir. The little village of Nuits-St-Georges in its southern end gave the region its name: Côte de Nuits. The city of Dijon marks its northern border.

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