Bouzeron aubert de villaine biography

French wine expert

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ierre de Benoist at Domaine de Villaine is not your average Burgundian winegrower. In his world the aligoté grape rules, not the chardonnay and the pinot as elsewhere in Burgundy.

– I use my experience from the aligoté for the chardonnay and the pinot noir, he says. Especially for the chardonnay. The chardonnay is not my reference. The aligoté is.

Bouzeron, at the top of the Côte Chalonnaise, is the only village appellation for the aligoté grape. It is a very small appellation. Only 44 hectares. Meursault covers hectares.

– My uncle and my aunt bought this domaine in , says Pierre de Benoist. At the time it was a small domaine, just eight hectares. When I arrived here in it had grown to cover hectares. Today we have 21 hectares. Ten hectares are aligoté.

The uncle and aunt in question are Aubert and Pamela de Villaine. When Aubert de Villaine came to Burgundy to take charge of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in he did not want to both work and live in the Côte de Nuits.

– When they started looking for a place to live they were not necessarily looking for a place that included vines, says Pierre de Benoist. Then they discovered the village of Bouzeron. It is a very small village – people live here. There are probably more cats and dogs than people. My uncle was surprised to

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Bouzeron AOC

Bouzeron is an appellation d'origine contrôlée (AOC) for white wine produced in the French communes of Bouzeron and Chassey-le-Camp in the Côte Chalonnaise subregion of Burgundy.^[1] Bouzeron wine is produced from the grape variety Aligoté, and Bouzeron AOC is therefore the only communal-level Burgundy appellation for Aligoté-based wines. Other Aligoté wines from Burgundy are restricted to the regional appellation Bourgogne Aligoté AOC, and all other white Burgundy wines from communal appellations (except Saint Bris AOC) are Chardonnay-based. However, Pinot blanc is technically allowed.

The Bouzeron AOC was created in ,^[1] and at this time replaced the Bourgogne Aligoté de Bouzeron AOC, which had been introduced in within the Bourgogne Aligoté AOC. There are no Premier Cru vineyards in the Bouzeron AOC. The move towards an own appellation for Bouzeron and its Aligoté was spearheaded by the efforts of Aubert de Villaine, co-owner of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti.^[2] Together with his wife Pamela de Villaine he owns Domaine A & P de Villaine in Bouzeron.

Wine style

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The wines of this appellation are more similar in style and fruit characteristics to Pinot gris than to Chardonnay. The wines tend to be light bodied wit