Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Pedro Parra is not simply

Pedro Parra is not simply a winemaker—he is the world's leading authority on terroir as expressed through geology

mineral rather than buttery

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

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Brasserie des Voirons Aligote 2025 Lettie Teague WSJ On Wine Pedro Parra is not simplyThis 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