Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 champagne-template The premium expression from Wild

The premium expression from Wild Turkey's legendary father-son master distiller team: Jimmy Russell (on the job since 1954) and Eddie Russell

Juniper takes a backseat to salty grapefruit and hops

resulting in water very rich in minerals

dried flowers - explosive complexity from a grape long dismissed by the big houses

Made in ancient German oak barrels and aged in cellars maintained at constant temperature for centuries—this wine rewards patience with 20+ years of evolving complexity ahead

Domaine Serol Cote Roannaise Perdriziere 2023 champagne-template The premium expression from WildHead 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