Domaine Joseph Colin - Bourgogne Aligoté 2024

This Aligoté is alluring and focused, with notes of green apple, peach pit, salted preserve lemon, raw hazelnuts and whit mushroom. 

Joseph Colin initially trained at Domaine Marc Colin, working alongside his brother, Pierre-Yves, to make the family wines. In 2016, Joseph decided to create his own Domaine, and, subsequently, inherited just over six hectares of vineyards from his family holding, representing about nineteen different appellations, to start his exciting new venture. This Bourgogne is a blend of seven parcels from cooler sections of Joseph’s vineyards.

Picked 28th September, the last plot. A pretty lemon and lime colour. Lovely aromatics, ripe orchard fruit, the wait before picking has paid off. There is some elegance here, limes in the aftertaste, so fresh Aligoté plays well with ripe fruit. I like this seeming paradox. Bottled August. Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy.

100% Aligoté.

Technical notes

Only healthy grapes make it to the press; the wines are also handled as little as possible, therefore there is no bâttonage, filtration or fining and no sulphur is used during the winemaking process until racking where minimal amounts are used. Fermentation and maceration is processed in 350-litre oak barrels for 12 months, before three months in stainless before bottling.