2017 | Alain Graillot | St. Joseph

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Red Wine: 2017 | Alain Graillot | St. Joseph

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.

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Producer: Alain Graillot

Ratings: VN | 92 WA | 91

Vintage: 2017

Size: 750ml

ABV: 13%

Varietal: Rhone Blend

Country/Region: France, Rhone Valley

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.

Reviews:

• Vinous: Dark, glistening ruby. Aromas of ripe, spice-tinged dark berries, licorice and candied flowers, along with a hint of olive paste. Silky and round on the palate, offering sweet blueberry, cherry and spicecake flavors that turn livelier on the back half. Dusty tannins add grip to a long, smoke-tinged finish that strongly repeats the cherry and spice notes.

• Robert Parker’s Wine Advocate: Showing more than a touch of austerity, the 2017 Saint Joseph needs a couple of years in the cellar. It’s herbal and ashy up front, balancing those elements with grilled meat and black olives. Medium to full-bodied, it’s firm and tight but also fine-boned and long on the finish.

Producer Information

Alain Graillot left a career in agro-chemicals in 1985 to follow a dream with a rented parcel of vines, on the site of a former pig farm, on the Chassis plateau between Tain l’Hermitage and Pont l’Isre in the appellation of Crozes-Hermitage in the Northern Rhne. Today the Domaine has a reputation for being one of the leading Crozes-Hermitage growers and having trained many more vignerons who have taken Alain’s expertise and winemaking philosophy to heart. That includes Alain’s sons Antoine and Maxime who together have run the domaine somewhat interchangeably for the last couple of decades. Alain passed away in 2022 but Domaine Alain Graillot remains one of the most widely respected producers in the Rhne valley and their wines grace the lists of France’s finest restaurants. The Graillot philosophy is as simple as it is successful to produce appealing, sensibly-priced wines that people will want to drink.