Jéroboam La Guiraude

The reference vintage of the appellation in Jeroboam! Notes of black olive and a bloody side introduce it. The definition is spicy, with notes of hearth. The palate is concentrated and full-bodied. The whole crop stretches out, contrasts with the richness, and the wine retains a salutary serenity and tension.

Dark garnet colour. Powerful and concentrated nose of ripe black fruits, black olives, zan and liquorice. The dense and structured palate reveals an extremely complex aromatic palette.

Domaine Alain Graillot is located in the Crozes-Hermitage appellation area, in the commune of Pont de l'Isère a few kilometres south of Tain l'Hermitage. The vinification and maturing facilities are located in the middle of the vineyards, at the place called Les Chênes Verts.

The soils are made up of alluvial deposits from the Rhône and Isère rivers with sand, very little soil and many round pebbles which make them very filtering. The Domaine Alain Graillot vineyard has 20 hectares of vines, divided into 2.7 hectares planted with white vines (80% Marsanne and 20% Roussanne) of relatively young vines (25 years old) and 17.3 hectares of red vines, entirely Syrah, ranging from 15 to 60 years old. Domaine Alain Graillot's growing methods are traditional but oriented towards low yields, short pruning and light manuring. No herbicides are used, the soils being worked exclusively with ploughs, in order to encourage deep rooting. The grapes are harvested by hand and as a rule not destemmed.