Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse It boasts a huge nose

It boasts a huge nose of blackcurrants

showing how carefully Inglenook walks the line between richly powerful concentrated Cabernet and a fresher lean style of wine

and unctuously textured

on the high plateau of Pomerol

Clos de Vougeot and Echezeaux

Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage, La Guiraude 2016 Warehouse It boasts a huge 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