2017 Maxime Graillot Domaine Des Lises Crozes Hermitage

Maxime Graillot no longer stands in the shadow of his celebrated father. Today he has the senior winemaking role at Domaine Alain Graillot and is carving out his own place in the history of the Northern Rhône
Maxime Graillot’s Crozes des Lises’ Crozes comes from the lieux-dits of les Bourrets and les Pichéres, both housed within a single vineyard near the village of Beaumont-Monteux. Here, in the most south-easterly part of appellation, the fast draining soils are full of gravel and alluvial stones and are very low in clay, much like his father’s plot in Les Chênes Verts to the north. This Crozes soil type lends itself to refined, aromatic Syrah with a pronounced savoury profile. Planted throughout the 1980s, the vines are now managed organically (as is the Alain Graillot Estate that Maxime also manages today)