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2015 Alain Graillot Crozes-Hermitage - France, Rhône, Northern Rhône, Crozes-Hermitage (5/23/2023)
This wine really surprised me! Super bright fruits, raspberry and blackberry, and, surprisingly ruby grapefruit as well, really pops on the palate - finishes all rocks and cured meat -I was looking for a more savory northern Rhône, but this delivers something quite the opposite, and it is delightful
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Surprising notes for a 2015, candidly. I really love reading that, definitely a wine I would want!
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Exactly what I was thinking, you have trained me to assume that 2015 in northern Rhône is going to be ripe, not that that’s a bad thing, but this was definitely lean, and the fruit was far from over ripe, love the brightness, big surprise, not what I was expecting
Awesome news! Thanks for the tasting note.
Interesting. His St Joseph (a little more rare to find) was more or less what you would expect in 2015, though in a nicely controlled way. And the Crozes, on release in 2017, was a pretty rich, tannic wine.
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Agree on producer style based on the young ones I’ve had. Light and elegant. Not all of the N Rhone complexity in the secondary realm you might want but lovely all the same.
I recent bought some 1995s at auction. Any recent experiences from anyone there?
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These seem like they’d age really well, please open yours and post a note, and tag me!
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I like this wine wine young. The 2020 is our every day Syrah.
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The Crozes-Hermitage? How fortunate for you to have that as your daily Syrah! JEALOUS
Sounds delicious and this thread helped me pick out a wine for tonight.
This was also surprisingly filled with bright red acidic fruit on top of a more concentrated dark berries note. But nothing ripe. Only 13% abv. More focused on the fruit, pepper and floral notes than the smoke and meat thats well hidden in the background. A bit of brett, but i like that.
So happy that i bought a good amount of these since the 2015 vintage. (They are rather cheap in Europe).
I think the vintage might surprise Robert 
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Is it hard to find now? Used to just sit on shelves, and was pretty affordable.
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I don’t know - I only bought one bottle, would love more. Saved the other half of the bottle to enjoy later this week
Maybe 2015 in N Rhône will continue to surprise!
(Or maybe @Robert.A.Jr is simply wrong)
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Envoyer usually offers this every year. I’ve been buying since 2016 but have had some mixed results. I think they have been messing with some partial carbonic or something recently.
I went back and visited what I had recently because of some of the mixed notes I was seeing on CT. While the 2017 was quite good all around, I struggled with the '16, '18 and '19. I don’t think I’m going to keep buying honestly.
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