Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 champagne-template returning to an era that

returning to an era that saw heavy-bodied rye whisky served at bars and saloons throughout America

Master distiller Felipe Camarena's overproof blanco

each batch rests for a minimum of 10 years before being bottled

dried flowers - explosive complexity from a grape long dismissed by the big houses

Juniper takes a backseat to salty grapefruit and hops

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 champagne-template returning to an era thatHead upriver from Sancerre, past the point where most wine maps give up, and you reach the Cote Roannaise, an obscure pocket of the upper Loire where the Serol family has been farming granite slopes for generations. Perdriziere is a single 1. 5 hectare parcel named for the partridges that once filled it, planted at nearly 400 meters on decomposed granite stained red with iron. The grape is Gamay Saint Romain, a local strain of Gamay that behaves