Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Cabernet Franc silky and seamless with chocolate-coated

silky and seamless with chocolate-coated red fruit and a delicate finish

The 1991 Côte Blonde from René Rostaing has long been considered one of his finest wines and at age twenty-three

Its soft characteristics and velvety tannins

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Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Cabernet Franc silky and seamless with chocolate-coatedThe 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