For some time now we have been collaborating with Alain Graillot, one of France’s most renowned winemakers, and certainly one of its most astute, to produce an elegant, terroir-driven wine on Australian soil. Those familiar with Graillot’s work in the Northern Rhone won’t be surprised to hear that Syrah is the conduit of choice, with fruit selected from specific parcels within a single, lime rich Heathcote vineyard.
The first wines under the ‘Graillot Project’ banner will be released next year. They will be from the near faultless 2010 growing season - the first vintage where we felt that we truly succeeded in nailing our vision to produce a truly refined, restrained and linear expression of Australian Syrah. There will be two wines released next year: Graillot Australia and Syrah No2. But that’s next year. Below we offer the final ‘trial wine’: the last wine we made on the road to convincing Alain Graillot that he could produce something delicious in Australia that matched his exacting standards and stylistic vision. It was also a wine which taught us many things about the vineyard with which we were working.
The 2009 ‘Wine Traveller’ Syrah is one-off bottling, offered at an exceptionally good price. It is a taste of the good things to come from the Graillot Project!
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This was one of the trial wines for our project with Alain Graillot of Crozes Hermitage fame. Aromatic and pure, the nose is bright with pastille, black cherry and white pepper. Time in the glass... read more
