Domaine Dandelion Aligoté

Domaine Dandelion Aligoté

£58.00

Country: France

Region: Burgundy

Grapes: Aligoté

Vintage: 2018

Christian Knott and Morgane Seuillot of Domaine Dandelion have two hectares of old vines in a patchwork of small plots around the village of Meloisey near St Romain. Viticulture is organic with some biodynamics - Christian and Morgane spray raw milk on the vines instead of sulphur and eschew any machinery in the vineyards, preferring to employ their trusty horse. Once harvested by hand, the grapes are pressed in an old wooden screw press and aged in neutral oak under their house before bottling without filtration or sulphur.

The 2022 Aligoté was picked from two parcels; one is a quarter-hectare parcel close to home, named Vigne de Cret planted to Aligoté in the 1940's and the other Goutte d'Or, a steep half-hectare parcel that has some of the oldest vines, with just one third planted to Aligoté in 1944 (the rest to Pinot Noir and Gamay).