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

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

Shane M. Nicholson

9.0

Re runs of Baywatch. Hot dogs. Slip n Slides. Aint nothing wrong with celebrating and proudly admiring the gratuitous and guilty pleasures in life. This stuff is great! After all.....no reason to be a "prisoner" to over priced gunk. Nor regard something as a "special selection" when its mass produced to the tune of 45000 cases. Less than 15k made of this bad boy! And did I mention.... A glow in the dark label!? Genius! Mustache rides anyone? — 10 years ago

with Jason

Talis Lin

9.8

Stunning champagne. Forget about those mass market bottles and buy this vintage grower champagne. 2004. $75. — 10 years ago

Christy Frank

9.4

A little more serious and structured than a Lambrusco. But no less charming. Drinking very well. From Ross at Critical Mass - a distributor back label you should know and look for. — 11 years ago

Aaron Steer

9.5

Pretty hard to find a better mass produced beer in Australia. — 12 years ago

Michelle P. Dupic

9.6

Christmas bubbly after midnight mass — 12 years ago

Antoine Pin

Wine Buyer Kroger/QFC

9.8

This wine was fucking awesome!!!!!!!! The big brother to the Ch. La Faviere. Cold Mass and directly put in 56 Gallon French oak that sit on wheels and turned 6 times a day taking the place of traditional pump overs and punch downs. Aged for 12 months in new French oak. Massive beast. $75 / 94pts — 12 years ago

Thomas Hughes

9.0

Another fantastic California Cabernet Sauvignon blend by Jayson Pahlmeyer. While not available at most wine stores, I have seen it at Central Market occasionally. Drinkable now or worth cellaring, the fruit is forward, balanced, and smooth. For $45 or under, this wine has so much more going on than Silver Oak, Caymus, and all the other mass produced premium reds. Cheers! T — 13 years ago

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

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

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

Nena Madonia

9.1

Decent week night wine or dinner party to buy in mass quantities — 10 years ago

M. Ventre

9.2

This is has definitely come together more since November. — 10 years ago

Dave Bader

10

Awesome Local Red from Mass. — 11 years ago

Scott Rowe

8.9

V13 A mass produced German Riesling for the Rheinhessen region. Our first none the less.
Canned pineapple on the nose, with passion fruit in the mouth.
A high acidity finish.
Good bang for buck at €5 — 11 years ago

David Singer

Sommelier/Wine Educator LibationEducation

9.6

Yum. Great IPL (India Pale Lager), perhaps even better than Mass Rising from Jacks Abby as well. Great balanced but pronounced hoppy notes, complex citrus, and the New Zealand hops really do add multi level tropical notes. — 12 years ago

Jeffrey Boscamp

9.1

Fish and game 1 aug 2013, great rose Pinot Grigio — 12 years ago

Renee Sweany

9.1

$10.99 from mass ave wine shop. Integrity and sustainability certified. — 13 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

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

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

Traci Strickland

8.9

Highlight of the Trader Joe's mass purchase. — 10 years ago

Chris G

10

My absolute favorite dessert wine. Having tasted every dessert wine mass produced in the Southern Hemisphere for the 2008 vintage, nothing could at hold a candle. — 11 years ago

Dmitri

9.3

Figs and dates, cherries, balsamic vinegar, sweet and sour, toffee. Taste is similar, with some soy sauce notes, medium acidity, and clean refreshing finish. Well rounded, fantastic balance, just a slightly off-dry and matching tartness. Not quite as complex as the Grand Cru which has a higher proportion of old (2 year), but a pleasure to drink. Make no mistake, this is a world-class beer, not mass-produced swill (though it is mass-produced). Find it at your local liquor store and rejoice! — 11 years ago

Sasha Agapov

9.5

You can't go wrong with this one. Very mass-produce, but still great! — 12 years ago

David Singer

Sommelier/Wine Educator LibationEducation

9.6

Double IPL, balanced hoppy lager, really complex. Well done! — 12 years ago

Matt W

9.5

Villa Creek "Gather No Moss." 2010 Paso Robles. — 13 years ago