Community Tasting Notes 5

• Ardross wrote: 94 points

  September 18, 2014 - I bought only two of these and the first was a profound disappointment - overly brick red at the rim and a wine that generally seemed rather dead although no obvious fault could be found . Tonight four years on I expected this to be ropey - far from it - deep red still in colour , a wonderful bouquet of ripe plums, smoke and the very finest dark chocolate . On the palate deeply plum fruited , splendidly balanced altogether excellent - bravo

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• cinnamon Likes this wine: 89 points

  April 10, 2010 - Some browning but still deep red appearence. Nose of some sweet cherry but more of smoke and meat (bacon?), bayleaf and with hints of violet. The palate brings a fresh attack with medium intesity of sour cherries and animal, almost gamey. Pretty long and fresh finish thanks to the high acidity. The wine drinks fine right now.

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• cweiss wrote:

  October 18, 2007 - Excellent balance, good syrah fruit, no fruit. More interesting than 2 years ago. Liked this!

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• andrewstevenson.com wrote: 81 points

  January 7, 2006 - North Rhône Offline (Rotisserie Jules, South Kensington): Very ripe pig manure on the nose, and it's quite difficult to get past the pong to the fruit, but there is a little strawberry and cherry fruit hidden in there.
  Sweet, intense black fruit on the palate: very deep, concentrated, pure fruit. Light-grained tannins on the finish. Some around the table think this is corked. I'm not sure: there's no trace of corkiness on the nose, though there is a certain musty cardboardiness at the edge of the palate. I'd be inclined to think that it's just dirty winemaking though.

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• cweiss wrote:

  January 5, 2006 - King Fung. Decanted an hour, and early in it's drinking range. No poop, but pretty good syrah/earthy fruit, enough to balance the Graillot acidity.

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Wine Definition

• Vintage 1996
• Type Red
• Producer Alain Graillot
• Varietal Syrah
• Designation La Guiraude
• Vineyard n/a
• Country France
• Region Rhône
• SubRegion Northern Rhône
• Appellation Crozes-Hermitage

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• In Cellars 25 (32%)
• Consumed 54 (68%)

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