2023 Domaine Michel Lafarge Aligote

Fewer than 350 cases made. Pear, bread dough, white flowers, lemon curd, a saline mineral finish — and a richness and depth that stops you in your tracks for a regional Aligoté. This is "Raisins Dorés" — the golden-berried, late-ripening biotype of Aligoté, planted in 1937 on deep clay-limestone in Volnay, whole cluster pressed, fermented with native yeasts, aged 15–18 months in used barrel. Certified organic and Demeter-certified biodynamic. The Lafarge family has been in Volnay since the early 1800s — three generations of people who understood that great farming matters more than the name on the label. This is why.