Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 Classic Chalone vineyard Chardonnay with

Classic Chalone vineyard Chardonnay with a healthy mid-palate

the 13 year Longrow "Red" bottling spends its last three years of maturation in ex-Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon barrels

This new iteration

Notes of dried figs

we discover floral notes

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 Classic Chalone vineyard Chardonnay withHead 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