Norman

9.1

Nice although was looking for a bit more punch tonight. Let’s see if it changes in a couple weeks as I just opened it. — a year ago

Josh Weinstein

9.5

When at a Whiskey Library in the PNW. — 8 years ago

Gae Saccoccio - NdC

9.6

Really complicated on these so suspect days, expose themselves with concepts such as: tradition, terroir, identity without falling into the most sinister rhetoric if not sounds just trite and hypocritical as the counterfeit currency with which even large-scale industries - supported by marketing - pays back its inattentive mass audience riding the wave of the country of origin or protected typicality. A diabolical mechanism this one for which even the most noble ideas probably the right practices and good experiences completed in the scale of centuries to human measure and not on massive industrial scale, are trivialized by sleazy slogan, emptied of meaning to be more or less surreptitious thanks to barbaric persuasion techniques and brain-washing propaganda.
Yet with the Valentini's Trebbiano you may not groped to summarize in words if not by drawing on terms so appropriate to express it. Now concerning this iconic label we've got behind it a local grape variety, a real family and a great wine that collect in a bottle the past and present story of a side of Abruzzo who claims to defeats victories and sacrifices to dominate the abuses (on and of) nature, miseries and splendours of agricultural seasons. Places, people, vision, wines such as Valentini are here to remind us how each bottle stay so proudly standing as non-reproducible beauty and fermented goodness expressing all its artisanal uniqueness and authenticity which are just that suspect to industrial wine production in manufacturing chains on standardized quantities; wines that are all equal to themselves even though wine itself is not much left at the end of the day/cycle. Trebbiano d'Abruzzo Valentini 1998 is what we have to rate right now: rusticity with class; style, purity and glory of a local grape recognized by many admirers from all over the world: act local think global this is another slogan-cliché which in this specific Valentini's wine exemple could sounds a little less false and more effective. — 10 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

romo

9.4

WotN. Hit all the notes with little (no) divisive rhetoric from the group. — 4 years ago

Matt Sterr

9.2

Certainly heavy with oak and spice. Certainly smooth and easy. — 7 years ago

Lauren Duda

9.3

I've chosen my wine to accompany spicy chili and heated rhetoric. #debatewine #debatenight — 9 years ago

Michael Sullivan

9.2

Bottle 30178 — 5 years ago

Laura Purdy

9.0

I really like this, but doesn’t have the depth of the Rhetoric — 7 years ago

Nic Z

9.2

Vanilla cream — 8 years ago

Mike Madigan

9.4

Commanding and conversational Cab... Dark and Gothic in all ebbs... Gorgeous and shapely from initial sensory step to sip's summation. Scenic, its own language and phenolic rhetoric.. Sa propre histoire. — 10 years ago