Bourgogne Aligote
- White
- Aligoté
About Domaine Hoffmann-Jayer
When the Jayer-Gilles estate, founded in the 1950s, was purchased in 2017, its new owner André Hoffmann—a well-known environmentalist whose father Luc co-founded the World Wildlife Fund—set out to improve farming practices and to refine cellar practices in the service of purity and balance.
A generous, yellow-fruited wine from a 1950s planting of the prized aligoté doré clone grown on a plot called “Les Castaings” in the commune of Magny-lès-Villers. Handpicked at peak maturity, the grapes are sorted, gently pressed, and racked into stainless steel tanks for both fermentation and ageing, with bottling at 18 months.