SAINT JOSEPH ALAIN GRAILLOT 2017
Saint Joseph
The first vines on the land of the Alain Graillot estate were planted at the end of the 1960s. The property is in the hands of a pied noir winegrower who arrived in France in 1962. In addition to the 17 hectares of vines that he plants over the years - particularly between 1968 and 1973 - he took care of fruit trees and took care of his farm animals. He grows and vinifies his wine himself, but the aging and bottling is entrusted to the Delas trading house. He later wished to take his independence and broke this contract. Alain Graillot, 40-year-old electrochemical engineer, moved to the estate in 1985 with his family. He entrusts the cultivation of the grapes to a worker who has already been working on the estate since 1973, but he takes care of the treatments himself. When Alain Graillot definitively acquired the property in 1988, he undertook the construction of new cellars and offices. In 1989, he inaugurated his first vintage produced from A to Z, including bottling.
Antoine and Maxime Graillot, Alain's sons, now oversee all the vinification of this property, which has more than twenty hectares and has illustrated for many years the qualitative potential of the Crozes-Hermitage appellation, for a long time. reduced to the production of simply fruity wines. Located in the heart of the alluvial plain of pure pebbles and gravel of La Roche-de-Glun, the estate produces Syrahs that are finer and more structured than most of those in the area. The strength of the wines lies in the immediate pleasure they provide, even if they are capable of aging with complexity over ten years.
The red Saint-Joseph expresses a certain freshness. The juice is drawn from the entire harvest, the frame is tasty and the whole ends with pepper and violet. The crozes is touched by an evolved point, a chocolate note is felt