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very little new oak

prunes and walnuts

and then used as an aging vessel for The Macallan whisky for at least 12 years

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 Lanson Rose Champagne Close to the top inHead 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