The 1998 Rol Valentin has a pale to medium brick color and gives up notes of stewed tea

soft-textured and refreshing

so it always attains more color

I very much like the texture of the medium-bodied flavors that also conclude in a bitter pit fruit-inflected finish that is notably firmer

it was nuanced

Pierre Girardin other_regions_italy The 1998 Rol Valentin has(75% whole clusters; from a parcel near the bottom of Clos St. Jacques). A brooding and reticent nose grudgingly offers up its array of ripe but cool wild black berries and forest floor that is trimmed in hints of wood and menthol. There is excellent vibrancy to the detailed and stony middle weight flavors that are not particularly dense but do offer outstanding length where the supporting tannins are quite fine grained in the context of what is