Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 NO20230705 Francois Carillon's family has grown

Francois Carillon's family has grown Chardonnay in Puligny-Montrachet for generations — he and his brother split the old family domaine in 2010 — and this Bourgogne Blanc comes from vines just outside the village appellation line

a white Champagne made entirely from black grapes

survivors of an isolated terroir that time forgot—protected from industrial viticulture precisely because Itata was dismissed as a backwater for decades

From outside the great City of Roma this 50% Grechetto and 50% Viognier with no oak only steinless steal light and slightly aromatic

this starts with more than 10 years in American white oak bourbon barrels

Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 NO20230705 Francois Carillon's family has grownThis is a beer. Read that again, because the label says Aligot and the bottle looks every inch like wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in Lucinges, an alpine village in the Haute Savoie between Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva, using spring water from the same aquifer that feeds Evian. Their "vigneronnes" are the wild ones: spontaneously fermented beers aged for months in old barrels on the grape lees of winemaker friends. This one lives on Aligot lees, and