Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 Lanson Rose Champagne orange and white pepper

orange and white pepper

Aromas of white flowers

The annual 12-year-old cask-strength Lagavulin is the distillery with the sherry stripped away: no rounded-off 16-year-old richness

The complete production cycle—planting

Eleven months is a substantial finishing period—long enough for the Chardonnay character to genuinely integrate rather than just coat the surface

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 Lanson Rose Champagne orange and white pepperHead 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