Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 MENU in the village of Celles-sur-Ource

in the village of Celles-sur-Ource

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Sustainable

The Chassagne-based domaine farms only a sliver of this hallowed Grand Cru

Domaine Saint-Cyr VdF Alien Blanc 2023 MENU in the village of Celles-sur-OurceTwo thousand bottles, ninety year old vines, and no sulfur at any point: Alien is Raphael Saint Cyr's outlier, and he named it accordingly. It's Aligote, Burgundy's overlooked white grape, growing on clay in the Beaujolais and treated with unusual patience. The juice is pressed straight into old barrels without settling, ferments on wild yeasts, and then sits two full years on its lees in a reductive environment before bottling unfiltered. That long,