Chateau de Beru Athenais Aligote Bourgogne White 2021
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Chateau de Beru Athenais Aligoté Bourgogne White 2021

Chateau de Beru
$48.00

Grape: Aligoté
Vintage: 2021
Type: White

This white wine is a pure varietal bottling produced by Athénaïs de Béru from organic and biodynamically managed vineyards in Burgundy. The aligoté grapes are hand-picked from rows rooted in thin topsoils packed with limestone and clay. The winemaking follows low-intervention principles, utilizing spontaneous native yeast fermentation and zero modern adjustments in the cellar. It ages in old, neutral oak barrels to encourage texturally driven development while keeping heavy wood flavors out of the equation.

It pours a pale straw color with green highlights, opening with clean aromas of green apple, lemon blossom, and mountain herbs. A medium-bodied frame balances orchard fruit flavors with a chiseled, chalky mineral undercurrent. A racy vein of natural acidity cuts right through the slightly waxy texture, keeping the mouthfeel lively. The neutral wood contact provides a structural cushion that softens the lean framework avoiding heavy weight.

Chateau de Beru

The Béru family have owned the historical Château de Béru domain for 400 years. At the beginning of the 20th century when the phylloxera crisis hit all the vines were uprooted leaving the estate without its source of income. It was only in 1987, that the Comte Éric de Béru, out of passion for wine, undertook to replant the entire vineyard, and in particular, the famous monopole vineyard Clos Béru. His daughter Athénaïs runs the domain now and has transformed the farming to certified Biodynamic practices. Her first vintage was 2005 and in the years that have followed she has become one of the most revered and influential winemakers in Chablis.

Its terroir was formed during the Kimmeridgian era and is mainly composed of crushed limestone and marine fossils.

Grapes are handpicked, the harvest is directly pressed at low pressure. The juice is directly transferred to stainless steel tanks for fermentations. All wines are aged for 14 to 16 months and are bottled without any fining or filtration. The close attention brought at each step of the winemaking process is the key element, which allows for low sulphur vinification or in the case of the single site wines no addition at all.

The wines are produced without any additives. The aging is long and carried out in accordance with the cycles and the seasons.

Our approach: analyze, understand, and express the identity of a vintage and accompany it by playing on the date of the harvest, the press, or the length of maceration.