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Aligote

1) Aligoté is a white grape variety that is grown in Burgundy and has historically lived in the shadow of Chardonnay. 2) It is a crossing of Pinot and Gouais Blanc that produces wines with good acidity but lower yields than Chardonnay. 3) While not considered a high quality wine, Aligoté produces very pleasant whites, especially as an aperitif, and in recent years its quality to price ratio has led to increased market share.

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Aligote

1) Aligoté is a white grape variety that is grown in Burgundy and has historically lived in the shadow of Chardonnay. 2) It is a crossing of Pinot and Gouais Blanc that produces wines with good acidity but lower yields than Chardonnay. 3) While not considered a high quality wine, Aligoté produces very pleasant whites, especially as an aperitif, and in recent years its quality to price ratio has led to increased market share.

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Grape characteristics: small or medium-sized, cylindrical or cylindrical-conical, winged or slightly

enlarged at the base.

Characteristics of the grains: medium, spherical, sometimes deformed, light green, slightly
yellowish with shades of copper. The skin is thin and elastic. The content is juicy.

A strange story, that of Aligoté, a variety of white berries, grown in Burgundy since the
seventeenth century, which often lived in the shadow of Chardonnay.

A vigorous vine, with variable productivity, able to offer wines of good acidity, sometimes more
energetic than Chardonnay, but with much lower yields and often introduced by Burgundian
producers in the blend, which, in fact, restrict the vine to anonymity.

A natural cross between Pinot and Gouais Blanc, Aligoté can be defined as the "brother" of Gamay
and Chardonnay, as well as other lesser-known vine varieties. The name probably comes from the
word "Gôt", an archaic synonym of Gouais Blanc, once widespread, but almost extinct today.

It is not an easy variety to grow: in France, the country of origin, it even has its own name with
Bourgogne Aligoté wine. The resulting wine is not considered a high quality wine, although Aligoté
has many aspects, which make it a particularly pleasant white, especially if it is used as an aperitif
wine.

It is a smaller vine, it can be said, depending on the acceptance of a respect for taste for more
standardized wines such as Chardonnay. A definition, which we could accept, if we did not
attribute a negative connotation to this concept, due to the lack of structure and complexity of the
wine and we would consider them as distinctive aspects and features of the vine.

Most wines, produced by Aligoté, do not include barrel or ripening during production, because
they give the best when they are young and fresh.
The main feature is fresh acidity, which feels strong after the first snack: its aromas, too delicate
and fruity, with final hints of dried fruit, do not tolerate oak barrels well. In recent years, pure
Aligoté wines have begun to regain market share due to the quality / price ratio.

It is a very popular grape variety in Moldova and Romania, but also in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia,
Kazakhstan, where it is used mainly for the production of sparkling wines. To a much lesser extent
it is found in California and Chile.

In other words, Aligoté is Aligoté, with its qualities and limits. Like it or not, "it's worth a
chardonnay."

Aligoté is a vine that takes us back in time, thanks to a unique personality, who brought him to
Moldova and remained in the history of this country, for the important role he played in the
development of viticulture: Constantin A. Mimi.

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