Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine with a delicately integrated peatiness

with a delicately integrated peatiness

The kind of bottle that quietly becomes your house white

practicing biodynamic

it pulls 100% Pinot Gris from across the Willamette Valley to capture the whole region in a glass

Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine with a delicately integrated peatinessThis 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