A self-made woman, her story is as much about American entrepreneurship as it is about the wines of France. She passed away in 2021, and her story is well captured in the NYTimes Obit here. As a sincere ode to her life and impact on his industry, Pierre Morey dedicated a wine to Becky Wasserman, from her favorite grape: Cuvée Becky Aligoté.

At its core, the wine is made from the estate’s oldest plantings from 1937 – serendipitously Becky’s birth year. They are blended with vines planted in ‘38 and ‘69. And unlike the typical Aligoté at the domaine, this wine is fermented and aged entirely in wood.

 

“We have too many words today to describe something that’s fairly simple,” Becky said on Levi Dalton’s I’ll Drink to That. So we’ll leave our descriptions with: this is an honest wine, from a vintage we love that's well worth raising a glass with.