2009 Azienda Agricola Valentini Trebbiano d'Abruzzo

Community Tasting Notes (19) Avg Score: 91.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View gilrbo's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/31/2024 - gilrbo Likes this wine:

  Easter lunch, no TN, from memory. Golden color, not too deep, clear and still looks young. Dried hay, herbal and yeasty notes. A wonderful mix of freshness and lightness and deep minerality. Wonderful.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Benoit Hardy's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/2/2024 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Bottle drunk for the first time in 2022.
  
  Nose of tropical fruits, notably pineapple and with a strong herbaceous side.
  
  On the palate, the juice has great maturity, with aromas of exotic fruits then a beautiful minerality and freshly cut herbs which return in the second part of the palate. Creamy texture, the acidity appears sufficient for the wine to stand the test of time even if we are not on a model of straightness given the richness that the wine displays. Beautiful finish, oscillating between wet stone and soft herbs, over a good length.
  
  Very good white wine, very consistent.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View forceberry's profile
  • Report Issue

  6/29/2022 - forceberry wrote: 94 Points

  100% organically farmed Bombino Bianco (more likely a local synonym for Trebbiano Abruzzese than Bombino Bianco the variety). The wine is made from approx. 5-10% of the best grapes harvested, the rest is sold off as bulk. Fermented spontaneously and aged in old oak casks. Spontaneous MLF. Bottled unfined, unfiltered and without any SO2. 12% alcohol. Tasted in a Valentini Trebbiano 2014-1999 vertical.
  
  Deep, intense and still relatively youthful yellow-green color. The nose feels slightly more restrained compared to the younger Valentinis tasted alongside with a quite healthy dose of bretty funk and more restrained mineral nuances. There are aromas of almost lambic-like leathery funk and phenolic spice along with aromas of hay, some crunchy green apple, a little bit of evolved honeyed richness, light mineral notes of wet rocks and salty sea air, a hint of something vaguely meaty or gamey and a touch of zesty citrus fruits. The wine feels remarkably concentrated, powerful and rather oily on the palate with a quite full body and bold, bone-dry flavors of cool stony minerality, tart notes of green apples and zesty grapefruit, some saline mineral notes, a little bit of apple peel bitterness, light smoky nuances of phenolic spice, a funky hint of bretty leather and a touch of hay. The rather high acidity lends great sense of balance and intensity to the overall feel. The finish is long, dry and powerful with complex, slightly evolved flavors of stony minerality and smoky phenolic spice, some lemony citrus fruits, a little bit of herbal bitterness, light tart notes of Granny Smith apple, a hint of tangy salinity and an evolved touch of honeyed richness.
  
  A very powerful, ripe and opulent vintage of Valentini's Trebbiano - but here ripeness doesn't really translate to sweetness of the fruit, as the wine is as bone-dry as any vintage of Valentini. No, instead here the ripeness means the acidity might be a tad lower than is typical of the label, but at the same time the wine shows even more power, concentration and dry extract than it normally does (and Valentini Trebbiano is typically a very powerful white with lots of dry extract). The wine really does have some tactile presence and even if the wine never once feels particularly heavy, the mouthfeel does have some viscosity one might normally associate with bold and extracted red wines rather than white wines. Yet the wine is all about freshness, precision and minerality. Although still a mere youngster, this vintage is noticeably more approachable compared to the very lean, incisive and tightly-knit 2010 vintage that was tasted alongside. While I expect both wines to age wonderfully for at least another decade or two, I'd say this 2009 vintage will reach its apogee sooner. A terrific wine that is immensely impressive already now and in all likelihood will continue to improve years and years more.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Benoit Hardy's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/17/2022 - Benoit Hardy Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Nose on exotic fruits such as pineapple or mango.
  
  The mouth has an attack on wet stone before the juice settles serenely on aromas of exotic fruits and very marked anise. The acidity may seem low but the balance is not threatened. Saline finish where we find freshness over a good length.
  
  A very good white wine, quite atypical for those who love straight-up Chardonnays.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View hprphf's profile
  • Report Issue

  5/24/2021 - hprphf wrote: 92 Points

  Quite delicious, bare and open, can pass of as a grassy Burgundy. 92

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 19 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.