Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 White smoky nose

smoky nose

showing off all of its 100+-year-old-vine pedigree

Moderately saturated medium red

93 points James Suckling

nascently complex and classic finish

Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 White smoky noseThe 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