Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 NO20230802 and baking spice

and baking spice

vanilla and delicate spices with a subtle richness

Less anise and more herbal than most Absinthe that you may be familiar with

and the saline

with a balanced oak influence

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 NO20230802 and baking spiceHead 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