Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Brunate, 2021
Some Barolo you buy to drink; Brunate you buy to argue about with friends twenty years from now. Rinaldi is one of Barolo's great traditionalist houses, and Brunate — the storied La Morra cru — is the estate at its most perfumed: rose petal and sour cherry, orange peel, tar and iron, framed by tannins that are firm but never clumsy. Nothing here is dressed up. Native-yeast fermentations, long macerations, and aging in big old Slavonian casks, with no new oak anywhere near it. The 2021 growing season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and this wine wears it well: bright acidity, real depth, a spine that goes the distance. Decant it hard if you're opening one now, but the patient move is to hide it and forget about it.
Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Brunate, 2021
Some Barolo you buy to drink; Brunate you buy to argue about with friends twenty years from now. Rinaldi is one of Barolo's great traditionalist houses, and Brunate — the storied La Morra cru — is the estate at its most perfumed: rose petal and sour cherry, orange peel, tar and iron, framed by tannins that are firm but never clumsy. Nothing here is dressed up. Native-yeast fermentations, long macerations, and aging in big old Slavonian casks, with no new oak anywhere near it. The 2021 growing season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and this wine wears it well: bright acidity, real depth, a spine that goes the distance. Decant it hard if you're opening one now, but the patient move is to hide it and forget about it.
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Some Barolo you buy to drink; Brunate you buy to argue about with friends twenty years from now. Rinaldi is one of Barolo's great traditionalist houses, and Brunate — the storied La Morra cru — is the estate at its most perfumed: rose petal and sour cherry, orange peel, tar and iron, framed by tannins that are firm but never clumsy. Nothing here is dressed up. Native-yeast fermentations, long macerations, and aging in big old Slavonian casks, with no new oak anywhere near it. The 2021 growing season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and this wine wears it well: bright acidity, real depth, a spine that goes the distance. Decant it hard if you're opening one now, but the patient move is to hide it and forget about it.
