This was one of the wines we had at our last wine dinner, which last minute illness and cancellations was basically decimated attendance. Despite wrecking the theme, we managed to cut some wines and enjoyed a pleasant evening. We were going to drink a number of wines with the vintages ending in 7 and that would still have ended up mainly with the 1997 and 2007 vintages. After the cuts we still managed to sample both vintages. Chateau Rol Valentin is one of those garagiste wines, but not one of those hideously expensive wines, and not excessively "Parkerised". This wine (rated 88 points by Wine Spectator) was a deep ruby with a sweet tannic fruity acid nose. The palate was dry fruity and acid, with a soft acid backbone.
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