Domaine de Villaine, Bouzeron Aligoté 2023

Why we love this bottle

Aubert de Villaine ran Domaine de la Romanée Conti for years, the wine often called the most expensive in the world. Yet together with his wife Pamela he bought an estate in the village of Bouzeron, in the south of Burgundy, and bet everything on Aligoté. Today his nephew Pierre de Benoist runs the estate, which has been organic since the eighties. We love it because a man at the very top lost his heart to a simple grape.

Bouzeron is the only village in Burgundy where the wine must be made from Aligoté. Aubert de Villaine fought for that himself. White peach, lemon and a salty finish, almost as if you are standing by the sea. Taste what Aligoté sounds like when someone truly believes in it.