“Grain de Beauté” Bourgogne Aligoté

Grain du Vin

Downloads

Label Tech-sheet

Type

White Wine

Appellation

Bourgogne Aligoté

Variety

100% Aligoté

Viticulture

Soil type

Clay-limestone soil

ExpositionSoutheast

Vinification

Without additives or sulfur, the grapes are directly pressed and carefully settled before fermentation with indigenous yeasts.

ElevageÉlevage in 228L & 500L used barrels; the wine is aged on its lees for 18 months, followed by one month of rest in stainless steel.

Harvest typeHand Harvested

Fining/FilteringThe wine is unfined and very gently filtered before bottling.

More about
the producer

Grain du Vin

Founded in 2022

-- hectares

Mélanie and Vincent Zuber spent years working in some of Burgundy's finest cellars before founding their own low-intervention négoce project in 2022. The name, Grain du Vin, pays homage to the deep regional connections that the pair have made; in Mélanie’s words, “the fruit of all of the people we’ve met in the last two years.”

By day, Mélanie and Vincent are steeped in very different worlds in Burgundy; Mélanie works as the cheffe de cave (cellar master) of a very famous 150-year-old, 100-hectare family estate, while Vincent is the premier bottler of natural wine in the Côte d’Or for the best natural winemakers—including our very own Pierre-Henri Rougeot, who opened a bottle for us and first put us in touch.

It was only when we met Vincent in his family c...