Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 SF Chronicle mineral whole

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perfumed Loire cabernet franc crossed with a cool-climate gamay

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

Approachable and honeyed

Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 SF Chronicle mineral wholeArbois 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