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There may have been no more extraordinary cult figure in Italian wine than the late Edoardo Valentini, the mysterious producer of Italy’s greatest white, the mythic Valentini Trebbiano d’Abruzzo. This extraordinary wine became legendary due to the intensity, complexity, and age-worthiness reported by those lucky enough to have tasted it. And the legend was only fueled by its extreme rarity and Valentini’s reluctance to talk about how he made it.
Edoardo passed away in 2006 after making this amazing wine for fifty vintages. But his son Francesco schooled from an early age in his father’s singular ways, hasn’t missed a beat, fashioning epic Trebbianos since his first solo vintage in 2007. In fact, they may be even better than before. Francesco has brought greater consistency and elegance to this profound wine while sacrificing none of its transcendent characters.
Aromas of chamomile, lemon peel, melon rind, and white plum on the nose. On the palate, this is all about the texture, flavors of rich melon, citrus, and orchard fruit meld with chamomile and a gently crushed stone element, a wine that shows a fine line between ripeness and tension.