Notes from Becky Wasserman & Co:

Charles Lachaux started his micro-négoce because of Aligoté. On several occasions, he had blind tasted d’ Auvenay’s Aligoté Sous Châtelet alongside serious Premier and Grand Cru Chardonnays; sometimes it was at least in the same league —always, it was up there... The Arnoux family has Aligoté and used to bottle it, but at some point it was deemed unworthy, and the grapes were sold off to négociants. Charles wanted to vinify those grapes again. So Charles started a micro-négoce to purchase the grapes from the domaine instead...Acquaintances of Charles who had recently taken over domaines from their parents were pouring their hearts and sweat into conscientious viticulture. They were sad to see their grapes go to much larger négociants where they would be blended into large cuvées. When they heard that Charles had started a négoce, they offered him some.....The Aligoté is vinified and aged in older barrels for just under a year and bottled without fining or filtration. Total sulfur at bottling is 58ppm.