Lyle Fass

Founder Fass Selections

9.3

Nose is a bit subdued out of the gates. Some mineral, some feral, some spice. But palate is full blown awesome 15 in full glory. Dense, juicy, meaty and so packed with dense berry fruit. Long and so fresh, I mean really long. This is so good. I’ll be back as the nose opens up.

After 12-15 hours open nose is meaty, minty, granitic, spice, feral, herbs and a hint of sauvage floral. — 5 years ago

Matt Austin

Owner/Winemaker, Grosgrain Vineyards, Walla Walla, WA

9.3

Not sure that the Chardonnay barrel treatment brought much to the table, but in the end it is still a well aged Samichlaus in all of it’s 14% abv glory. Merry Xmas! — 6 years ago

Berg

9.2

Great bottle of wine. Black tea, cherry, plum, barnyard, glory. — 7 years ago

Thomas Brenner

9.2

There are some places in the world where they view present day America as a place where we expect to be happy. Should we feel bad they live in places where you should just expect hardship? We live in a time and place where we can focus on building our inner selves and have a chance at....When we're not constantly putting out fires we can really focus on...should that be a source of shame. When the desperate struggle to find food and shelter is finally behind us, we can turn our attention to other sources of pain and truth.
This is the kinda wine you feel bad about being able to enjoy. I feel privileged. — 7 years ago

Paul Einbund

Wine Director/Sommelier Frances

9.5

2007 with the most intriguing nose in a long time seaweed and salt water shitake mushroom and sweet black cherry juice live on with glory my friend!! — 8 years ago

Jay Bergesen

9.0

Delish. Funk and yeast at first. Mellows over the hour. Fresh fruits and joy. Unfiltered glory. — 9 years ago

Joshua Figg

9.5

Full bodied, rich, and fruit forward. Excellent! — 5 years ago

Dan Howell

9.4

I first have to note that I tend to like sweet wines. On the nose it had notes of ripe stone fruit and if you can smell honey it would be there as well. Now the tasting is where this wine shines. The “Noble Rot” is there in its full glory! The sweetness is not over the top. I happened to have this wine with a spiced pork roast with a nice layer of fat and this wine matched up lovely with it. Back to the flavor profile, you have the ripe stone fruit and honey notes. You will enjoy this wine. — 6 years ago

Gerardo Suro

9.4

Lovely orange peel and ripe golden apples laced by vibrant acidity brimming with mineral energy and promise. The saltiness on the backend highlights the gorgeous Mediterranean pedigree of this wine in all its glory. — 7 years ago

Lisa Albertson

9.2

Just perfect with our meal — 7 years ago

Neil Cornish

9.1

The wild violet beast in all its glory — 8 years ago

Alexandre Calvi

9.4

Modern style of St-Emilion, deep ruby color, full body, scents of pain grillé, ripe but not over-ripe black fruit, kirsch liqueur fresh acidity with a long heady finish. Succulent! — 8 years ago

Alan Goldberg

9.0

The Riesling that changed my mind about trocken. Balanced in all its fruit, acidity, and minerality glory — 9 years ago

John A

9.0

Still with hints of fruit notes to tease of a past glory, but it was limited at this point with other notes touching on raisins, earthiness with mushrooms...but overall past its prime. — 6 years ago

Joakim Bogström

9.2

Approachable.
Lemon, lime notes w/ mineralic crushed stones notes.
Friendly acid levels
Medium body. Creamy texture. Lime, green and yellow apples in its characteristics blends w/ toasted pain. No distinctive oakyness.

Drinks well, but could age for another 10+ years. Try again in 5. Pair w/ tuna sashimi, gremolata and pickled apples. — 7 years ago

Mark Morgan

9.0

S. France in all its glory — 7 years ago

Martijn

8.9

2011 vintage on 28.11.17
Dark pale. Typical SB nose. Well balanced jn the mouth. — 7 years ago

Nathan O'Brien

9.6

#Glory #HappySicilianDay — 8 years ago

with Anthony

Mac Hofeditz

9.5

Great pre election wine drinking / pain killing event ! 😁 — 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. — 9 years ago

with Alberto and Giovanni