Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 seminar-template This Champagne gold in hue

This Champagne gold in hue with small golden highlights

melon rind and prickly pear all ride a wave of tremendous acidity through the exceedingly long finish

Eighteen-day native yeast fermentation with 33% whole-cluster aging and 33% new French barrique creates a wine of medium body with chalky texture

The fruit comes from 60-year-old vines rooted in Muschelkalk

anchored by Cabernet and filled out with Bordeaux and Rhone partners

Domaine Ligier Arbois Chardonnay 2023 seminar-template This Champagne gold in hueArbois 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