Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 Ancellotta’s fruity taste and colour

Ancellotta’s fruity taste and colour

warm spices

A rare find

or a Champagne novice looking to get a guided tour of the bubbly revolution

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 CS20230713 Ancellotta’s fruity taste and colourHead 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