Charles Lachaux crafts the Bourgogne Aligoté Les Champs d’Argent on the limestone-rich, clay-loam soils of parcels surrounding Vosne-Romanée and Nuits-Saint-Georges. The gentle, well-ventilated slope fosters healthy fruit and even ripening of the old Aligoté vines. These soils bestow freshness, refined minerality, and a clear framework upon the wine, while the cellar regimen preserves the natural expressive power of the grapes.

The grapes are selectively harvested by hand, gently pressed, and fermented spontaneously. Maturation takes place with minimal intervention to preserve clarity, freshness, and mineral precision, allowing the filigree fruit and limestone-driven pedigree to stand squarely at the fore.

In the glass, the wine shows a pale straw yellow with greenish reflections. The nose is crisp and vibrant, offering aromas of green apple, lemon zest, and white blossoms, complemented by a fine note of chalk and sea salt. On the palate, the wine feels precise and nimble, with succulent fruit, invigorating acidity, and pure minerality. The texture is slender, the structure clear, and the finish fresh, elegant, and persistent.

In its youth, Les Champs d’Argent displays vibrant freshness and taut minerality. With a few years of bottle age, the fruit will harmonize further as its mineral tension deepens into elegant complexity, bringing the filigree clarity of this Aligoté lieu-dit into even sharper focus.