Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine and aging on fine lees

and aging on fine lees without racking

and she maintains very little reserve wine to preserve the character of each vintage

The kind of bottle that quietly becomes your house white

The result lives somewhere between blanc de blancs precision and rose generosity

Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine and aging on fine leesThis is a beer. Read that again, because the label says Aligot and the bottle looks every inch like wine. Brasserie des Voirons brews in Lucinges, an alpine village in the Haute Savoie between Mont Blanc and Lake Geneva, using spring water from the same aquifer that feeds Evian. Their "vigneronnes" are the wild ones: spontaneously fermented beers aged for months in old barrels on the grape lees of winemaker friends. This one lives on Aligot lees, and