Tasting Notes
Valentini’s Rose exists in a stand-alone category. There are only a handful of rosés that are hunted down, aged and offer such stirring experiences. It’s considered the definive Italian rose from the standard bearer of Italy’s cult producers. Offering fascinating textures, complexity and a unique spectrum of fruit, flowers, minerals and spice. This is a rare rosé that is built to age. With time, they develop layer upon layer of complexity that unfolds into something special. - Importer Note
We love a good mystery. And one of the most enigmatic is the late Edoardo Valentini of Abruzzo. There may have been no greater cult figure in Italian wine than this 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.
What is known is that he ripped up the existing plantings of the characterless Trebbiano Toscano clone, and replaced it with an ancient local clone, Trebbiano d’Abruzzese, convinced that it best conveyed the soul of his terroir. And he relied on venerable Roman winemaking methods to express this with startling clarity.
Furthermore, it's not made every year - only when Edoardo felt the conditions were perfect. And even then, he only bottled around 5% of his fruit, selling off the rest for not meeting his perfectionist standards.
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 character. Whether made by Edoardo or Francesco, production of the Trebbiano has always been microscopic, making the wine almost impossible to source.
Such is the hype surrounding this epic white wine, that many people often forget that a red and a dry rosato are also produced from Montepulciano. While not receiving quite the same levels of excitement as the Trebbiano, they are both exquisite wines, and are often harder to find than the exceptionally rare white.
| Product Type | Wine Red Other Varietals & Blends |
| Volume | 750ml |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Abruzzo |
| Winemaking Practices | Minimal Intervention |
| Vineyard Practices | Organic/Biodynamic |