TN: Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage,'la Guiraude', 2005

[MarkS]

Deeply colored black cherry. Initially, a very perfumed floral aroma with black fruits. This is one meaty wine: sturdy black fruits (mostly black raspberries and blackberries) meet a wall of tannin on the rugged finish, burly, meaty and sinewy. Needs a piece of bull-cow to really shine. With air, a little diaper poop ebbs and flows, and some olive paste shows up with even more extended airing. Good and holding. Upside? Quien sabe? A-

 

[drssouth]

originally posted by MarkS:
TN: Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage,'la Guiraude', 2005Deeply colored black cherry. Initially, a very perfumed floral aroma with black fruits. This is one meaty wine: sturdy black fruits (mostly black raspberries and blackberries) meet a wall of tannin on the rugged finish, burly, meaty and sinewy. Needs a piece of bull-cow to really shine. With air, a little diaper poop ebbs and flows, and some olive paste shows up with even more extended airing. Good and holding. Upside? Quien sabe? A-

shouldn't that be "qui sait"

 

[MarkS]

originally posted by drssouth:

originally posted by MarkS:
TN: Alain Graillot, Crozes-Hermitage,'la Guiraude', 2005Deeply colored black cherry. Initially, a very perfumed floral aroma with black fruits. This is one meaty wine: sturdy black fruits (mostly black raspberries and blackberries) meet a wall of tannin on the rugged finish, burly, meaty and sinewy. Needs a piece of bull-cow to really shine. With air, a little diaper poop ebbs and flows, and some olive paste shows up with even more extended airing. Good and holding. Upside? Quien sabe? A-

shouldn't that be "qui sait"

Yes, it *should*, but I never studied French!

 

[BJ]

Optimal in 2020. Or 2025.