Cured Meats and Beautiful Blackberries- Alain Graillot Hermitage 2021 Whole Bottle Review Part 2

https://youtu.be/1OZsj9SV1qU Ah, I very much enjoyed the 2021 Alain Graillot Hermitage, but I can’t quite say it was a magical bottle….it took me on a flavor journey, just not an emotional one, which is my prerequisite for magic. While, it was not quite a magical bottle, it did have one close to magic glass. Even […]
Cured Meats and Beautiful Blackberries- Alain Graillot Hermitage 2021 Whole Bottle Review Part 1

https://youtu.be/FxgytHc0mX4 Imagine- a wine that has aromas and tasting notes of cured meats, bacon fat, prosciutto, black pepper, blackberry and blueberry, all in the same wine, all at the same time. Bacon fat in wine? That seems just about impossible…but in the Northern Rhone in France, they make the impossible magnificent. I bumbled into Northern […]