Valentini Trebbiano 2002

Fuck off newbie, and welcome to Wine Disorder, where you can come in the hopes of gleaning recent tasting notes on obscure, $100 Italian white wines from a group of crotchety anti-flavor wine elitists.
 
originally posted by Zachary Ross:
Fuck off newbie, and welcome to Wine Disorder, where you can come in the hopes of gleaning recent tasting notes on obscure, $100 Italian white wines from a group of crotchety anti-flavor wine elitists.
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Yeah! Fuck off! It wasn't nearly ready last time I checked in. And thanks for taking my DI order this afternoon!
 
There are some recent notes in Cellar Tracker. Of course, you have to filter them fairly carefully. And don't let anyone her know you've consulted them.
 
Keith I had a bottle last year that was brilliant. I don't know where in the evolution it was or if it would better (apparently yes), but if I had another chance to drink it now I gladly would.
 
originally posted by Keith Levenberg:
I've been meaning to check in on the '99 lately. Any recent thoughts?
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We tried a couple of bottles of the '99 recently, with mixed results as to "readiness" (they were all very good). Best was a bottle embedded in the middle of an older Barolo tasting, where the secondary characteristics were in full bloom:

1999 Valentini Trebbiano d’Abruzzo
This was the best bottle yet of this wine, obviously benefiting from 2+ hours of aeration. On the nose, exceedingly complex, with asynchronous elements miraculously melding—nuts, apple, yeast, and a distinctly sauvage element of thistles and underbrush lurking there. On the palate the complexity is perhaps not so obvious, but the nutty apple and yeast flavors turn sweet, focused, and palate-coating in the mouth. This one gets extra points for its complete originality—this isn’t your mother in law’s wine, as they say.

Other bottles were a bit more primary, so if you only have a couple (which describes myself now), I would be inclined to wait a couple of years more. Certainly this slightly more advanced secondary bottle tells me that the wait is worth it...
 
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