Ben says
★ Good Wine “Fragrant and intense nose, leaping out at you with sour cherry and blackberry coulis. Violets even. It’s certainly an alluring nose. On the palate its loud with tangy, farmy ‘natural’ tones, from sour plums to char and sweet clove. It’s a little chaotic or characterful, depending where you sit on wines like this, but I’d certainly drink it again.“
KEY POINTS
Varietal Syrah with 12.5% abv. Hand-harvested from vines on rocky and gravelly soils and fermented in temperature-controlled vats with 30% whole cluster fruit. Fermented with indigenous yeasts.
Grown in: Crozes-Hermitage, Rhone, FRANCE.
Food Pairing
This is a great pairing with mushroom dishes or soy-glazed meats.
Disclosure & Price
Tasted blind during an MW study club. Find in the UK for circa £21.75 (2021) from Terra Vines. 2020 available in magnum from Yapp Bros for £45.00.
Reviewed and tasted: 06/08/2024
About the Producer
Winemaker Maxime Graillot has added 6.5ha to The Graillot family’s portfolio, incorporating Domaine des Lises. This is a cooler site and is used, among other small plots, for the Equis range. Maxime is making similarly lean, expressive Syrah wines as his father Alain Graillot was famous for.
