Bourgogne Aligoté Les Busigny VV 2023 Domaine Rémi Jobard

Bourgogne Aligoté Les Busigny Vieilles Vignes 2023 from Domaine Rémi Jobard invites us to revisit our preconceptions about the grape: an old vine Aligoté, drawn from a single lieu dit in Meursault, vinified with the discipline of a Meursault. Where Aligoté is often simple, this one is mineral, structured and full of depth: acacia, lemon, saline minerality on the palate, a Meursault presence at the bottom of the glass, even in the most everyday wine of the estate.

Terroir and vineyards

Les Busigny, in Busigny, is a unique lieu dit of Meursault, on clay limestone soils where limestone dominates. The Aligoté vines, more than fifty years old, naturally reduce yields and deepen concentration: instead of the thin, aggressively acidic profile often associated with the grape, they give fruit with real weight at mid palate and mineral authority. The estate is certified organic, with hand harvesting. Fermentation with indigenous yeasts takes place in two thirds old barrels and one third foudre, followed by ageing in the same vessels, then six months of finishing in stainless steel to preserve the grape's freshness.

Tasting profile

The colour is a pale yellow with green highlights, lively and luminous. The nose, of unexpected finesse for the grape, combines lemon, acacia blossom, hawthorn, green apple, grapefruit, fresh almond and a hint of herbs. On the palate, the attack is lively and finely chiselled, the structure straight and taut, with depth and texture and a pronounced saline minerality. The finish is precise, energetic and bright.

The estate

Winegrowers from father to son since the 16th century, the Jobard family farms nine hectares in Meursault, all certified organic, taken over by Rémi in 1992. Rémi Jobard seeks pure, clean and precise wines, free of oak aromas, and treats his Aligoté with the same spirit as his far more expensive whites: not as a volume wine, but as a serious white Burgundy, linear, precise and subtly layered.

Food and wine pairing

This Aligoté pairs well with fines de claire oysters, a citrus sea bream ceviche, oily fish, roast poultry, shellfish or mild cheeses. Served between 10 and 12 °C, it will show its liveliness over the next two to three years.