Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 RFLASH teaching enology at UCSF

teaching enology at UCSF

is one of the great traditional Chenin Blanc producers in the world — full stop

and Graciano

and an almost Medoc-like tannic architecture

Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 RFLASH teaching enology at UCSFTwenty five cases a year, from a tenth of a hectare of vines planted in the 1930s that once belonged to Sylvain Pataille's grandfather hence "au Pp." Pataille has built his reputation arguing that Aligot deserves everything a grower would give Chardonnay, and he works exclusively with Aligot Dor, the golden skinned, low yielding old strain, rather than the productive Vert. The parcel faces east at 250 meters on clay marl studded with small limestone