The Restoration of Domaine de la Côtelette

Twenty-minutes' drive east of Nuits, wine dealer and musician-turned-vigneron Benoît Kilian is bringing back the beacon of Saône valley viticulture.

Benoît Kilian in his aligoté.

Following his retirement in 2012, pioneering Val de Saône natural vigneron Guy Bussière's vineyards were gravely neglected by a successor for six years. Enter, in 2018, the natural wine dealer Benoît Kilian, Bussière’s former client, who at age forty was ready to become a vigneron. He purchased Bussière’s vineyards from the…