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Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage La Guiraude 2017

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Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage La Guiraude 2017
Producer Domaine Alain Graillot
Region, Country Crozes Hermitage, France
Bottle Size 750ml
Product Code 18829-750

La Guiraude is a tête de cuvée, a barrel selection made only in vintages where it is felt there are some barrels that exhibit particularly intense and age-worthy personalities. Not necessarily a ‘better’ wine than the Domaine Crozes, it is typically more powerful and in need of longer cellaring.

The 2017 Guiraude is certainly a much deeper, more velvety and structured wine than the regular Crozes. It comes from a knockout vintage chez Graillot, and is a beautifully fragrant, fleshy Guiraude with oodles of blackcurrant, confit cherry, tapenade and subtle hints of bramble and cacao in the background. There is serious depth and plenty of fine tannins, yet it’s already seductive, offering significant drinking pleasure and complexity now. Of course, there is also plenty of stuffing and the tannins to ensure age-worthiness. As always, lovers of the Northern Rhône should be quick. Josh Raynolds' note sums it up best for us.

Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage La Guiraude 2017

Reviews

“Opaque ruby. Powerful, mineral-accented black and blue fruit, olive and allspice aromas are energized by a suave floral overtone. Fleshy, juicy and broad in the mouth, offering concentrated black currant, cherry liqueur, fruitcake and floral pastille flavors that tighten up with aeration. Densely packed yet energetic as well, finishing with sharp delineation, steadily building tannins and excellent persistence."
94 points, Josh Raynolds, Vinous
“Very dark; plentiful black fruit, blackberry lozenges, show on the nose which has smoky notes, dried herbs, ripe cassis, licorice and coffee. It’s a bounding, sure start. The attack is firm, closed but well filled; it lengthens nice and straight, inner strength at its centre, comes from within, really covers the ground. This is serious, structured Crozes. The finish is long, its juice thorough, sustained.”
John Livingstone-Learmonth, Drink Rhone

Reviews

“Opaque ruby. Powerful, mineral-accented black and blue fruit, olive and allspice aromas are energized by a suave floral overtone. Fleshy, juicy and broad in the mouth, offering concentrated black currant, cherry liqueur, fruitcake and floral pastille flavors that tighten up with aeration. Densely packed yet energetic as well, finishing with sharp delineation, steadily building tannins and excellent persistence."
94 points, Josh Raynolds, Vinous
“Very dark; plentiful black fruit, blackberry lozenges, show on the nose which has smoky notes, dried herbs, ripe cassis, licorice and coffee. It’s a bounding, sure start. The attack is firm, closed but well filled; it lengthens nice and straight, inner strength at its centre, comes from within, really covers the ground. This is serious, structured Crozes. The finish is long, its juice thorough, sustained.”
John Livingstone-Learmonth, Drink Rhone

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