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. — 9 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni

Kaitlin Ohlinger

9.0

I remember that I loved this, but I erased so many brain cells between when I drank it and now, I can't remember why. #thirties — 10 years ago

Renaldo Juanso

9.0

Fantastic wine I discovered on the wine list at Mason-Pacific in San Francisco. — 10 years ago

Kim Stanbro

9.1

Gellers Bday with Thomas George and our own resident George. — 10 years ago

with Dave, Mark and 2 others

michele janezic

9.0

game time funky wine. — 11 years ago

Lauren Brooke

9.4

Smoked meat nose delicate volleys on the palate. Wow — 11 years ago

Curtis Osborn

9.3

Curtis had this 9 years ago

Jonathan Hynes

9.4

Stunning, sharp acidity with heaps of lemon lime on the nose and in the mouth. Strong minerality with vines sourced from the bench. — 10 years ago

Kristi

9.4

Love this wine! ❤️ — 10 years ago

with Michael, Gernot and 1 other

Julius H White Jr

9.1

2012 warm baked cherries, velvety smooth mouthfeel, good stuff, picked it up as its on the wine list at the new job, gotta get acquainted. — 10 years ago

William Hughes

9.1

Do not mistake this for a Chinon. Cabernet Franc is a killer grape in Virginia and Maryland! She loves our terroir! This wine has a wonderful perfumed nose of sour cherry, desert rose, and a hint of tobacco. The nose follows through on the palate with svelte tannins and a slight cherry liqueur note. Well done Baker family and here is to Maryland wines! — 10 years ago

with Drew

Debbie Slutsky

9.3

Refreshing, citrusy yet delicate with a great texture. Only 45 cases made. Get if u can find it ! — 10 years ago

Brett Ritter

10

$12 - Von's sale. Baker favy... — 12 years ago

Sam Zavari

9.1

Dusty minerality with a prickly palate. Very good wine. — 9 years ago

Jim Reed

Fine Wine Room Manager Harbor View Wines and Liquors

9.3

2010 really surprised me. Good stuff — 9 years ago

Clive Williams

9.3

This is a very sophisticated SB with plenty of fruity flavour without the brain drying crispness of other Marlborough SBs — 10 years ago

Mike Kumazawa

8.9

2012... dusty cherry preserves, subtle tobacco, baking spices... open and ready for business, good structure and mouthfeel... very tasty — 10 years ago

Tim Burgess

9.2

Great balance of fruit, oak, silky mouthfeel, acid, & tannins. Classic Grenache raspberry & strawberry with a little white pepper plus some fig . Super! — 10 years ago

Leigh Gentty

9.5

This is a white wine not red. I can't stand Chardonnay and have been searching for an easy drinking white without the sugar brain I receive soon after drinking most whites. Love the minerality and light flavors but packs a punch at 14.5% alcohol content. Yumm — 10 years ago

Jim Brammer

9.7

PB Jazz from A Baker — 11 years ago