Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 NO20230802 8 mo in neutral french

8 mo in neutral french oak

single pot still Irish whiskey

and the saline

with a balanced oak influence

It's dry with bright acidity and a heady nose of jasmine flowers

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 NO20230802 8 mo in neutral frenchHead 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