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Bourgogne Aligoté Meix Pille, Clair Obscur 2023
Domaine Clair Obscur
Clair Obscur is the deeply personal project of Pierre and Jennifer Clair, a husband and wife team whose experience places them at the heart of Burgundy’s modern biodynamic movement. Pierre has spent much of his career as chef de culture at two of the region’s most influential domaines, first at Domaine de Montille and later at Domaine Marquis d’Angerville, estates widely recognised for their pioneering work in biodynamic viticulture. Drawing on decades of vineyard experience, Pierre oversees the family’s meticulously farmed parcels, while Jennifer leads the work in the cellar. Beginning with just 0.4 hectares of family owned vines in Corpeau, the domaine has gradually expanded through the acquisition of parcels in Maranges, Santenay, Beaune and the Hautes Côtes. Together they produce wines of remarkable honesty and energy, combining rigorous biodynamic farming with an intuitive, low intervention approach that allows each site to speak clearly.
Bourgogne Aligoté Meix Pille comes from a small biodynamically farmed parcel where the variety is treated with the same care and attention as the domaine’s Pinot Noir wines. Pierre and Jennifer aim to showcase Aligoté as a serious terroir wine rather than a simple regional bottling, emphasising freshness, texture and mineral precision. The grapes are harvested by hand and fermented with indigenous yeasts before ageing in older Burgundian barrels that allow the vineyard character to remain at the forefront. Aromas of lemon zest, green apple and white flowers lead into notes of wet stone and subtle orchard fruit. The palate is energetic and finely textured, with saline minerality, crisp acidity and a long, focused finish that highlights both the purity of the fruit and the precision of the Clair Obscur approach.
Producer Domaine Clair Obscur of Pierre and Jennifer Clair
Origin Corpeau, Bourgogne (Côte d’Or), France
Grapes 100% Aligote
Vintage 2023
Alcohol 12.5%ABV
Style Medium body white
Bottle size 750ml
Winemaking Manual harvested, sorted in the vineyard, whole bunches are loaded into wooden vats for fermentation, gentle extraction with pigeages and remontages during a 10-day cuvaison. The wine is aged in 5-15yo 228ltr barrels for about a year before bottling with minimal sulphur. Undergoes complete malolactic fermentation. Bottled unfiltred, unfined, no S02 added.
Notes Organic, Natural, Biodynamic