Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse and happy clients

and happy clients

and home to many cutting edge experiments like the rare hermetically-sealed glass “wine globe”

and unctuously textured

It boasts a huge nose of blackcurrants

The latest block to be brought to the winery

Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse and happy clientsThe late Alain Graillot is well known to wine lovers throughout the world, and was universally regarded as one of the most talented producers not only in the Rhne, but in the whole of France. What is extraordinary is that he built his reputation and fame in just 15 short years, and in an appellation that was until recently seriously despised by the cognoscenti. He proved that even (or should we say particularly) from the flat land near the Isre river