Domaine Ramonet Bourgogne Aligote 2022 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP a hill just north of

a hill just north of Bolzano that sits in the heart of Santa Maddalena — the closest thing Schiava has to a grand cru

but there's nothing minor about the wine: old vines across several hillside parcels

and the Thornicher Ritsch is a grand site that critics keep calling underrated

and built for the dinner table rather than the trophy shelf

he makes wines of unusual purity

Domaine Ramonet Bourgogne Aligote 2022 REDBURGUNDYROUNDUP a hill just north ofThe domaine that owns a sliver of Le Montrachet also makes Aligote, and does not treat it as a side project. These vines went into the ground in 1956 and 1963 seriously old for a grape most of Burgundy planted only where Chardonnay refused to ripen and Ramonet gives the wine the same traditional cellar handling as everything else in the house. The result is Aligote with actual flesh on it: still bracing, still capable of a Kir if you insist, but with