Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 SF Chronicle a touch of fresh mint

a touch of fresh mint

draws this wine from chalky limestone soils almost entirely lacking the flint that marks its sibling Silex

The wine to pour as evening descends

The difference is in the cellar: it sees only stainless steel

Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 SF Chronicle a touch of fresh mintArbois is the historic heart of the Jura and one of France's very first AOCs, and Domaine Ligier farms 10 hectares right there on precious blue marl and Triassic clay slopes, treating every bottle, sparkling or still, with equal seriousness. This is their still Arbois Chardonnay, grown on the same savory marl and clay that gives the region its distinctive power. Unlike the chalk grown Chardonnays of Champagne, Ligier's fruit has broader shoulders and