Despite having trained in Bordeaux and Burgundy, Alice Bouvot knew that when it came to start her own domaine, the Jura would be the place. In 2004 she started from scratch, buying a small cellar in the village of Arbois where she makes electrifying wines from negotiant fruit as well as a couple of hectares of vines in the Jura itself. 

A wine made only in rare instances, Arces is Chardonnay from old vines planted over limestone and marl in En Arces, Arbois. The grapes were destemmed and the wine macerated on the skins for three months, before being pressed to vats for a year of elévage. Hazy and perfumed, delicate and nuanced, it is a wine of rare energy and a highly original marriage of grape and place.