As
far as I can remember, well you never know – wine and braincells
don't get along that awfully well, my first 2011 Burg' so far! And my
first Aligoté in two or three years! Probably not my favourite grape
varietal!? The producers? Never ever heard of them before! Pretty
embarrassing, I guess! Alice and Olivier de Moor are highly
experienced and qualified oenologists who concentrate themselves on
“minimum intervention wine” (or maybe even “Vin Naturel”)!
After a few engagements in different wineries they established their
own small estate in 1988 in the vicinity of Courgis/Chabils.
All their wines are fermented with wild yeasts in approx. ten year
old oak casks, are aged for approx. 11 months in neutral oak, don't
get filtered, hardly sulphured and only sometimes fined. To me, this
winery was a totally rencontre nouveau ! At first I thought they were
Dutch dropouts or something like that! Well, not really correct!!!
Let's see how my first 2011 was:
