Meanderings is a travel column by Mindy Stern, a Mercer Island resident whose essays can be found at www.mindysternauthor.com.

While speaking to a Margaret River winemaker recently, our discussion turned to white wines made from the ubiquitous Sauvignon Blanc grape variety. His immediate response was to refer to this ...

Poor old aligoté. For decades, this white Burgundian grape variety lurked in the shadows of chardonnay, relegated to those areas considered not quite good enough for the much more famous white grape.

Once scorned as the workhorse grape of Burgundy, it is increasingly prized by top Burgundy vignerons producing impressive examples that remain—as yet—affordable.

It also features a speciality delicatessen retailing wines, artisanal delicacies and even grape-varietal specific glasses to go with your next bottle. Far from being just a regular wine bar, Le Clos’ ...

She brings elegance and purity to Chardonnay and Pinot Noir from appellations such as Cote d’Or and Beaune, but also to Beaujolais’s Gamay and Burgundy’s second white wine grape, Aligoté, ...

A distinctive white burgundy not made from Chardonnay. Priced from £27 and $36. Pictured above, the Clos des Perrières la Combe. Among the many expensive burgundies I tasted last month during Burgundy ...

The Santa Cruz Mountain range has long been a region for growing Burgundy grape varieties but fell off the radar in recent decades. Now, a new generation of winemakers is leading a revolution that ...

Naturally, the most expensive white grape vineyards in this region grow Chardonnay. The white grape Aligoté had long been considered a forgotten variety overshadowed by Chardonnay. Even during ...

The varieties that were the most popular with grapes processing businesses in said period included Aligote (5,220 tonnes, 16.3% of the total amount of grapes processed), Chardonnay (4,016 tonnes, 12.6 ...