Domaine Agnès Paquet - Aligoté Le Clou et la Plume 2019

Name: Domaine Agnès Paquet - Aligoté Le Clou et la Plume 2019
Brand: Domaine Agnès Paquet
Rating: 4 (7 reviews)

Bourgogne Aligoté|White wine

Burgundy

White

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Drink or Keep

4/5 (7 customers)

aligoté

complex

finesse

Agnès Paquet is determined to restore Aligoté to its former glory. This superb wine is back in vogue, enhanced by the expertise of this talented winemaker. It boasts finesse, fruit and complexity. Aged in 500l and 228l barrels, it boasts complexity and length. A gourmet wine, young, trendy and a little offbeat. A white for every occasion!

Features

Estate

Domaine Agnès Paquet

Cuvée

Le Clou et la Plume

Vintage

2019

Designation

Bourgogne Aligoté

Region

Burgundy

Grape varieties

100% Aligoté

Terroirs

Clay-limestone on the plots : - Les Plumes: in the commune of Meursault, with predominantly clay soil. - Le Topo du Clou: in the commune of Meloisey, this young hillside vineyard, a neighbor of our Hautes Côtes de Beaune Blanc, has a predominantly limestone terroir.

Viticulture

Integrated pest management

Harvest

Manual

Winemaking

Alcoholic and malolactic fermentations take place in barrels.

Breeding

10 months in 228-litre and 500-litre barrels followed by 2 months in vats before bottling

Alcohol content

13%

Tasting & pairing

Eye

Pale gold

Nose

The bouquet of this aligoté is fruity (apple, lemon) and floral (almond, acacia).

Mouth

Gourmet white wine, young, trendy, a little offbeat. A gastronomic wine, with a perfect balance between liveliness and the roundness provided by barrel and foudre ageing. It stimulates the taste buds!

Serve

AT 10-12°C

Open

Aerate in advance in recent vintages

Drink from

2022

Drink before

2026

Food and wine pairing

Ideal with head cheese, snail mille-feuille, parsley ham, Caen-style tripe.

Domaine Agnès Paquet

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Expert opinion

Bettane & Desseauve

Domaine rated (guide 2021) 2*Stars (A serious and recommendable production, but a little more regular and homogeneous than the previous one)

About the domain :

Agnès Paquet vinified her first vintage at Meloisey in 2001 on a family plot in Auxey-Duresses. She has masterfully managed her estate, which now covers 12.5 hectares in Hautes-Côtes de Beaune, Auxey-Duresses, Chassagne-Montrachet and Saint-Aubin, where the vines are intelligently tended according to organic principles. The whites are straightforward and chiselled, while the reds, vinified partly from whole bunches, are precise and full-bodied. Of particular note is the production of a house effervescent using the ancestral method, made exclusively with aligoté grapes.

Guide Hachette des vins

Domaine noté (guide 2021) Award-winning wines (The wines of this producer are regularly awarded by the guide)

About the domain :

Agnès Paquet created her domaine in 2000 from a parcel acquired by her family in the 1950s. Based in the Hautes-Côtes de Beaune region, she farms 9.5 ha of vines, most of which are in Melin, a hamlet of Auxey-Duresses. Organic conversion is underway.

RVF - La Revue du Vin de France / Guide des Meilleurs Vins de France

Domaine noté (guide 2021) Sélectionné (We remind you that this guide is a prize list and as such, all the estates that appear in it, even without a star, represent, in our eyes, the excellence of French production).

About the domain :

It was to avoid the sale of her family's Auxey-Duresses parcel that Agnès Paquet, a business school graduate, chose to become a winemaker. She produced her first vintage in 2001. Her style is always frank and fresh, which we're delighted about.

Jancis Robinson

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Customer reviews

Customer rating

4/5

out of 7 reviews

Note and review by M. THIERRY D. Published on 01/09/2022