2004 Rol Valentin
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As he had done in 2004, Eric Prissette chose to let his fruit hang through the rain and then do a strict selection rather than bring in grapes that were not yet ripe. He told me he eliminated a lot of fruit, then did a saignee, which went as high as 35% for his young vines but which tended to be much more modest for fruit from classic argilo-calcaire soil (fully three-quarters of the fruit that goes into Rol Valentin comes from Saint Etienne de Lisse, in a favored high spot near Fleur Cardinale and Valandraud). He then practiced what he described as a soft extraction. He believes that the tannins in 2006 are supple and rich.
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Like a number of his colleagues in St. Emilion, Eric Prissette told me that he would rather pick with rain and ripe skins than with dry weather and underripe skins. In the event, he harvested between October 11 and 18. The potential crop would have been 40 hectoliters per hectare, but turned out to be 28 after he eliminated the rotten grapes in the vineyard. He then bled off 30% of the juice. Not surprisingly, the young 2004 is a full 13.5% alcohol. "It's a classic vintage, but classic in a modern sense, which is to say very concentrated," noted Prissette. Most of Prissette's vines are in St. Etienne de Lisse, on argilo-calcaire, in a favored spot surrounded by the likes of Valandraud, Peby-Faugeres and La Fleur Cardinale. He ages his wines in all new oak, most from Taransaud but also some from Berthomieu.
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