Domaine Rougeot Bourgogne Aligote Les Plumes 2023 MAGNUM

Pierre-Henri Rougeot has been quietly producing impeccable minimal intervention, low-sulphur wines since he returned to the family Domaine in 2010. 

Today, the Rougeot vineyards are farmed organically, and Pierre-Henri’s no sulphur vinification effortlessly balances a natural wine approach with traditional Burgundian technique to create wines with energy and balance.  Each individual terroir is bottled separately though often there is two bottlings of each, one with no sulphur and the other with a small addition.

Whites are new wave Meursault, so tension over fatness, but still with a richness of fruit that typifies the village. 

Rougeot’s Aligoté comes from 50-year-old vines on the lieu-dit Les Plumes, meaning ‘the feathers’. The vineyard is located below the village of Meursault where the soil is predominantly clay and small limestone rocks. Fermentation takes place in used oak barrels where the wine matures for several months after which the wine is racked and bottled without sulphur additions.

2023 is the first vintage at the winery to officially be demeter certified.