1999 Azienda Agricola Valentini Trebbiano d'Abruzzo

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 90.6 points

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  7/7/2022 - angelcyn wrote:

  Have drunk several of the older vintages of this when it was affordable, now grossly overpriced cult wine, always found them very variable, good very good and also quite average.
  This started well nice nose and typical of this wineries efforts with this grape, but not so harmonious in the mouth and the bottle died halfway through, that is not a first either, £125 a bottle now, I don't think so.

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  6/29/2022 - forceberry wrote: 96 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.
  
  Quite intense, slightly hazy and somewhat evolved yellow-green color. Savory, somewhat fine-tuned and a bit restrained nose with clean, complex aromas of wizened green apples, some waxy funk, a little bit of ripe yellow stone fruit, light nutty notes of slivered almonds, a hint of ripe citrus fruits and a touch of beeswax. The wine feels bright, firm and quite lithe on the palate with a medium body and intense flavors of ripe citrus fruits and sweet white fruits, some nutty notes of almonds, a little bit of waxy funk, light stony and slightly salty mineral notes, a hint of honeycomb and a touch of phenolic spice. The racy acidity makes the wine feel very fresh, focused and structured. The finish is long, complex and somewhat evolved with harmonious, acid-driven flavors of ripe citrus fruits, some honeyed tones, a little bit of beeswax, light juicy nuances of sweet white fruits, a hint of nuttiness and a lingering touch of salinity.
  
  A beautiful, so nuanced and wonderfully evolved vintage of Valentini Trebbiano that is starting to show some tertiary complexity, yet at the same time manages to come across as much younger than what one would expect from a wine clocking in at 23 years of age. The wine does show a tiniest bit of funk, but the overall feel is much cleaner compared to the younger vintages we tasted in this tasting. Although the wine came across as lighter and less concentrated than the other wines we tasted, it was still so much more impressive and complex in comparison, it's easy to say this was the best Valentini Trebbiano we had. Based on this sample, it looks like that Valentini's Trebbianos can age easily for decades (even this wine feels like it could easily improve for at least another decade and keep for two, or even more) and they actually call for quite a bit of aging, as the younger vintages were so much more linear and even relatively simplistic in comparison.

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  10/12/2019 - Bob H wrote:

  I had to decant this, as the cork was in bad shape and broke apart.
  
  The wine itself is in great shape, however, with those savory notes that I often get with Tissot's Chardonnays from the Jura. Bone dry on the palate, with a salty finish I can still sense as I'm typing this. This is a white that demands your attention.

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  8/14/2019 - Herb K wrote:

  This wine never fails to delight and deliver. The ‘99 is drinking perfectly!

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  1/30/2019 - vindictive wrote:

  such a compelling wine, reductive matchstick and Meursault like, but then so much more emerges - truly one of the world's great wines

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