J. Kim

8.9

Dark and dense color, the aroma is subtly Italian with leather and licorice but is not lively with authentic local feel. The weight and density is very satisfying, it does not feel like mass-produced, event though it is modern and very clean. It does not have the nuances and aromatic intensity to be considered excellent, however the consistency and integrity of flavor is very impressive. — 7 years ago

Kyle Harvey

8.9

Sure it's mass produced, but it's still pretty dern good — 8 years ago

Drew Summers

Sales Northampton Wines

9.0

Weightless Mass — 9 years ago

Johnathan Robinson

8.9

One of the best mass produced Belgians in the world — 9 years ago

Max Jewell

9.0

WOW! Earthy, deep, dark & serious!! Bandol is a name that has yet to really put its stamp on the mass market. But I really hope more people try these! Not cheap, but my god, get some beef Wellington and pop this one & give it an hour. Yum. — 9 years ago

Timothy Lynch

9.0

Woops! Pulled the wrong bottle from the cellar. So, way too early to rate. Certainly all of the elements are there to suggest excellent drinking down the road. Currently just a mass of New World fruit and chewy tannins. Patience required. (9.0 three to five years.) — 9 years ago

Jared O'Connell

9.2

Brioche and caramel. Love this wine and I'm impressed they can produce such a complex wine in southern mass! — 10 years ago

Sara Dempsey

8.9

delightful portuguese vinho verde. so much more depth and flavor than the mass market stuff. — 7 years ago

with Brandon

Lisa Hart

10

The best white I've ever had. Period. — 8 years ago

Scott Petrus

9.5

I liked this wine so much that I went back and bought out the stock. The wine is currently at its peak. Tar, violets, along with still supple tannins give this lively wine structure. The flavors are dynamic with tertiary flavors present in mass. Tremendous wine. — 8 years ago

Matthew Powell

9.1

Mass-produced California Chardonnay this is not. Appreciably more complexity. Minerality balanced with ripe yellow apple and ripe papaya (mmmm, papaya!) with just the right touch of oak. — 9 years ago

Willie Carter

9.0

Really, really dark. All berries on the nose with a hint of coffee. It's got a nice, full body with tastes of vanilla, oak, and chocolate. I'm getting some raspberry and black cherries. It's very rich and of course, Big and Bold. Fruitbomb is the word to use. The finish is a bit too sweet for my tastes. Sometimes too much so but still pleasing. This wine was made to be mass-marketed and for easy drinking and it succeeds in that. — 9 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

Scott Petrus

8.9

Surprisingly good considering how much I dislike California Pinot. This mass produced wine was cherry first but held off on the Cola. There was a hint of earth but nowhere near the level you’d get from Cooler regions. Soft tannins never hurt anyone either. — 8 years ago

Joel Stevens

9.2

A very blessed night as I was able to enjoy this bottle with Bear at Del Frisco's Grill in Chestnut Hill, Mass. — 8 years ago

James Ayling

9.2

A mass of deep cherries, bold in flavour but not explosive. Well balanced and well received! Enjoyed this with my lovely wife to be at our wedding venue. — 9 years ago

with Benny

Ceccherini Cristiano

10

Had it July 2013.
Monumental!! 22years it seems bottle today. Blackberry and leather over the all mass, but more than the nose what is really astonishing is the palate. We had it after L'Apparita 1989 and we completely removed that wine away from our mind in one second. The tannin, OMG😱, the centre of the mouth, it all reminds you of a top French wine. Absolutely moving and inspiring❤️❤️ — 9 years ago

Jed

8.9

Pear, golden apple, biscuit, honey, lemon. Very frothy mousse followed by persistent, tiny bubbles. Balanced, and lovely - not mass-produced. Seems like a greater than usual amount of Chardonnay. Very good. — 9 years ago

Al Doyle

9.1

Couple of people's last shift at Toasted, so there is a certain festive atmosphere and quite a few bottles have already been drunk, so I was in a positive mood when this came out; but even stone-cold Catholic-mass sober I'd still say you'd enjoy this one; sort of sherbert and gooseberries. Bonza. — 10 years ago

with Ben and Lulu

Elizabeth Schneider

9.0

I'm so impressed. For a mass brand this is great! Honey, tea, and jasmine with bright acid and a great balance. I love this wine!! — 10 years ago