The 2022 Ovum Aligote smells like clean ocean air. You can almost feel the cold waters of the Umpqua River flowing through the wine. This is a texture- and palate-riven wine, at once lighter than air and richer than grass-fed butter at the same time. Hints of blueberry and green fig are hidden in the salty depths if you smell close enough. Bunches were pressed whole cluster. After settling overnight the juice was racked off heavy lees into 10 hL Austrian oak casks. This wine aged on lees for ten months, undergoing full malolcatic. Nothing added except sulfur dioxide.