Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny, 2009 photo search Benjamin Leroux spent fifteen vintages

Benjamin Leroux spent fifteen vintages running Domaine du Comte Armand in Pommard before launching his own micro-negociant operation in Beaune in 2007

This was the plot that launched the couple's Aligote collection

Angela Fronti's south-facing hillside expression—younger vines (planted 2014-2018) at 500 meters on marly limestone capturing fresh

and it's Aligote grown in the Macon

with the kind of structural grip that signals real terroir

Ghislaine Barthod, Chambolle-Musigny, 2009 photo search Benjamin Leroux spent fifteen vintagesA mature village Chambolle from a generous vintage, at the stage where the fruit has resolved into perfume and the wine simply flows. The mid August heat of 2009 gave ripe, fleshy, low acid reds that charmed early; at seventeen years the good ones have shed the puppy fat and turned savory and open knit. Ghislaine Barthod farms 5. 86 hectares, almost all of it in Chambolle, bottling eleven separate premier crus and no grand cru, and her village wine