Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Barbaresco and a layered mouthfeel

and a layered mouthfeel

Ultra sleek and suave on the palate but at the same time racy and vibrant

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Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Barbaresco and a layered mouthfeelThe 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