Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 NO20230712 This timeless Madeira blend of

This timeless Madeira blend of Tinta Negra and traditional grape varieties achieves its character through estufagem aging

This is the half-bottle

fermented with native yeast and rested on the lees in concrete and glass through the winter before bottling — gravity only

The name does double duty: pie franco means ungrafted

but with shorter aging and a more immediate

Domaine Sylvain Pataille Bourgogne Aligote Auvonnes au Pepe 2022 NO20230712 This timeless Madeira blend ofTwenty 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