Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 and chamomile tea notes open

and chamomile tea notes open onto a palate that's honeyed and saline

Beaufort works more like a Burgundian than a Champenois: native yeasts

An elegantly matured single malt that balances opulent fruit flavours with rich peat smoke and spicy wood

The component whiskeys are aged up to 20 years

crushed almonds

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 and chamomile tea notes openHead 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