Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse Clos de Vougeot and Echezeaux

Clos de Vougeot and Echezeaux

with an average of one full time worker per hectare

this was somewhat of a modern style wine

and unctuously textured

spice market and incense bring exuberance to an elegantly framed

Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse Clos de Vougeot and EchezeauxThe 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