2012 Azienda Agricola Valentini Trebbiano d'Abruzzo

Community Tasting Notes (47) Avg Score: 92.8 points

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  10/12/2023 - rocknroller wrote: 93 Points

  Jim & Michelene's 40th Anniversary Dinner (Jim and Michelene's Place, St. Paul, MN): Light medium gold color. Drank a glass over 90 minutes. Bold pear fruit, fleshy and dense, lemon, lemongrass, rich and creamy, oxidative, candied lemon peel. Even better than the last time we had this. Nice!

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  1/5/2023 - cubswinws Likes this wine: 92 Points

  This has come around over the past 5 years. Definitely a bigger wine and pairs best with a rich cream sauce.

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  11/1/2022 - Joe Gabagool wrote:

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  6/29/2022 - forceberry wrote: 89 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. 12,5% alcohol. Tasted in a Valentini Trebbiano 2014-1999 vertical.
  
  Youthful, luminous yellow-green color. Very nuanced and mildly funky nose with aromas of sweet citrus fruits and fresh white fruits, some sorrel notes, a little bit of phenolic spice, light floral notes of apple blossom, a zesty hint of grapefruit, summer aromas of white clover and other meadow flowers and a bretty whiff of meaty funk. The wine feels dry, concentrated and rather textural on the palate with a rather full body and complex flavors of earthy and slightly bitter phenolic spice, some bretty notes of leather, a little bit of stony minerality and tangy salinity, light crunchy notes of lemony citrus fruits and golden currants, a hint of hay and a sweeter touch of ripe yellow fruits. The taste seems rather noticeably more funky compared to the relatively clean nose. The bright, quite high acidity keeps the wine effortlessly in balance and lends good sense of structure to it. The finish is long, crisp and quite mineral with flavors of salted lemon wedges, some bretty notes of leathery funk, a little bit of crunchy Granny Smith apple, light mineral notes of wet rocks, a hint of green currants and a touch of hay.
  
  A fascinating, mineral and quite structured vintage of Valentini's Trebbiano that is quite a bit on the funky edge of the spectrum. It's definitely not uncommon to notice some bretty notes in Valentini's Trebbianos, but even if the nose here was quite clean and quite fruity, the wine had rather noticeable brett influence on the taste with at times quite dominant flavors of leather and spicy phenolic notes. Although quite lovely, balanced and complex, I still think the wine would've performed even better with slightly less bretty qualities. Fortunately the wine seems to be still quite youthful for its age, so maybe the more tertiary notes will at some point emerge and balance out those funkier characteristics?

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  6/25/2022 - DK Amateur Likes this wine:

  (Brace restaurant, Copenhagen): even after an extremely good Paradas Aspiru 2013 white from Penedes based on xarel-lo, this was as great, as I recalled it to be from a bottle in the mid-1980s. Deep, complex, firm, great food wine, with aged aromas and greenish notes. Still one of the greatest Italian whites, and on a par with a really good premier or grand cru white burgundy

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