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| Community Tasting Notes (average 94 pts. and median of 94 pts. in 33 notes) - hiding notes with no text | | | Tasted by SARED on 4/21/2024 & rated 94 points: 93-94. Pop and pour. Leans tart red fruit: 40% red cherry / 60% sour cherry/sour strawberry, bergamot, black tea, rosewood. Medium bodied, extremely elegant. Clean, lightly polished, very fine tannins, very smooth. Slightly mouth puckering acidity and then modestly drying woodsy on the finish, suggesting (I think) more time to age this is warranted. Very drinkable but would be better with a cheese. My last note called out tannin as prominent, and here it was acidity. Tempted to slow-O the next one overnight and see what nature brings. 93-94 (528 views) | | | Tasted by KimHartman on 4/13/2024 & rated 93 points: Cherries, touch of mango, tea, earth. Fruit is extremely pretty on the nose but does not follow through on the palate, where it feels a little disjointed. For me, slightly behind the Tre Tine this year. Uncertain how it will, or will not, evolve from here on. (489 views) | | | Tasted by vvWine.ch on 3/1/2024 & rated 92 points: (Blind verkostet) Helles Granatrot. Feinduftige Nase, rote Kirsche, getrocknete Kräuter, Leder, Teer. Im Gaumen zugänglich, bereits gut trinkbar, feines, eine Spur herbes Tannin, nicht überbordend in der Struktur, delikat, ausgewogen, mit guter aromatischer Länge und grosser Harmonie. Kein grosses Jahr, jedoch ein sehr guter Wein. Jetzt bis 2032 geniessen. (782 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 2/3/2024 & rated 94 points: Decanted a few hours prior. Very pretty midweight barolo with red cherry, florals, red rose, and svelte tannins. Pretty tannic in midpalate and finish. Did not need food. ZW93/95. At times a complete wine, at others more tannic without offsetting concentration. Defer to others on how long to age this one, but certainly has the structure to go many years longer. Great wine from the difficult 2014 vintage. (800 views) | | | Tasted by sooper65 on 9/17/2023 & rated 93 points: Yeah baby. Lovely soft Nebb. Linear and pure. Mid weight and the better for it.
Super duper (1401 views) | | | Tasted by Robmcl920 on 5/5/2023 & rated 89 points: The '14 Brunate shows how difficult this vintage was in some vineyards. It shows both less depth and less finesse than the better vintages of this wine. The '14 is a rare miss from Rinaldi, as I've found the winery to do well in tricky vintages including 2017 & 2018.
On the nose, I found the bouquet a bit aggressive and masculine, for lack of a better word, rather than the normal elegance and sweetness of Rinaldi. I found dried red cherry fruit, a touch of menthol, some blueish floral tones characteristic of the G. Rinaldi Brunate, and tobacco, with the aromatics a bit muddled and the fruit not showing the purity and sweetness of the better vintages. On the palate, the acidity stands out prominently, with the wine light in body, with diluted light red fruits, red floral tones, and menthol. While very light in body, the very high acidity and slightly grainy mouthfeel make the wine still come across as quite intense at this stage.
It's hard to see this aging well from here, and yet it's also not that pleasant to drink right now. This is the third time I have tasted this wine, the other two times being on release in 2018 and at La Festa in 2019. It has showed similarly each time, with the wine unfortunately lacking the inner sweetness and vibrancy of most other vintages, although I think if anything it has gotten a bit worse since 2018-2019. (2047 views) | | | Tasted by PC73 on 4/27/2023 & rated 92 points: Had this in flight with 08/10/11.
Showed well. Pretty. Open.
Slightly dilute on the palate reflecting the vintage. Otherwise, very enjoyable effort (1609 views) | | | Tasted by AWBryce on 4/15/2023: Tea leaves, powerful, dark cherry liquored. Palate is well. Structured, good fruit and chewey. Long finish (1470 views) | | | Tasted by jwsmith on 3/26/2023 & rated 94 points: I dint think there could be a better 2014 Barolo ... Its just that good.... (1577 views) | | | Tasted by MC2 Wines on 12/2/2021: Return to Piemonte!; 11/25/2021-12/4/2021 (Castello di Sinio, Alba, other various locations): Drinking incredibly well event for the young age. It’s a producer that I continue to enjoy and I think we’ve had a mini vertical/horizontal of his wines now on this trip. There’s that lovely elegance to the wine. Darker fruit (not sure why with Brunate being more sandy but it seems it often is that way). And a bit of floral notes as well. Very good. (3612 views) | | | Tasted by jwsmith on 6/12/2021 & rated 94 points: Classic asian spice rose petal delicous really the best 14 I have had so elegant... (2513 views) | | | Tasted by Torchy on 5/13/2021 & rated 93 points: Reddish-brown. Long, slow legs. Lovely nose with fat, wax, black tea, tobacco, tar, and dark fruits. Relatively high acidity. Hints of mint, honey, and tar. Tastes further of tea, sweet and sour fruit, and a little orange zest! Needless to say, but the structure is tight. (2453 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 3/24/2021: . Pnp. Had intended to give this wine an overnight slow o... but I did not get the chance (not all great plans are well executed!). On a Pnp I found airy fruit overwhelmed by structure with pronounced acidity exacerbated by fine but austere tannin. Strawberry coulis veers to sour red strawberry with the exacerbated acidity, with some interesting savory notes of leather and dried rose petal developing. Lighter bodied with this massive structure. Clearly not a wine to PNP, although I am confused by the structure of when to try and open the wine again (5 year? 10 year? 2014s were supposed to be easy?). Won't score the wine, but I remain of the belief this is 93+ at maturity, if not a 95-+. I still want to try a slow o, but also want to save the rest of my bottles from my science experiments. (2423 views) | | | Tasted by joshabramson on 3/3/2021 & rated 96 points: Crisp and juicy, elegant with firm acidity. I had a bottle of 14’ Rinaldi tre tine a few weeks ago so the memory is fresh — these two wines are pretty similar, initially I thought the tre tine might be the winner but the Brunate opened up after an hour and now I’m not sure which I would choose without tasting side by side. Both are delicious and drinking very well right now. (2851 views) | | | Tasted by jwsmith on 2/13/2021 & rated 94 points: Gorgeous color an nose right out of the gate delicious... Probably wine of the vintage or close. (2059 views) | | | Tasted by Tim Heaton on 12/27/2020: Aerated to decanter one hour. This has integrated nicely since first tasting it ~ 2 1/2 years ago. Avg+ complexity at this point, with elegance on each and every sip. Not a blockbuster, by modern standards, but certainly a wine of profound grace. Should cellar well/drink well in the two decades that follow the vintage; would love to see it in five more years. highly recommended, and as good as 2014 Brunate gets, I think.
http://www.italianwine.blog (3148 views) | | | Tasted by jrick on 12/12/2020 & rated 93 points: A tale of two quite different experiences from the same bottle, drunk 5 months apart through Coravin in July and the rest on this date.
Now on the first occasion I have to say that it was honestly disappointing - the wine seems quite closed up, it was mainly about sharp structure and little in the way of accessible fruit. It was red berried but tart, and the florality was quite subdued. I honestly did not long for the rest of the bottle’s contents.
Then when uncorking it, 60% of the bottle left, it seende to me a different wine. Why I don’t know, was it a variation in me and my mood, in the wine due to normal progression, in the wine due to the coravin (allowing a minimal amount of extra air in perhaps), was the bottle on shock from travelling the first time around. I don’t know, but it might very well be variation in me because it is not the first time with Coravin that the wine seems so different between occasions.
Anyway, the wine now seemed crunchy and fresh rather than tart, cherry, raspberry, bitter orange, roses, violet and mint. Tannins are mature and not obtrusive, just offering a welcome structure and resistansen. I liked it, even though I still expect more than this for the price (so much good nebbiolo at a fraction of the price). (1812 views) | | | Tasted by hajoha on 8/3/2020 & rated 94 points: Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate 2014.
Søte kirsebær, roser og spice.
Elegant og vakkert.
En ørliten volatil tone kommer med varme.
Kjøler vinen ned, og den tonen dukker aldri opp igjen.🤷♀️
Munnfølelsen er bare helt fantastisk.
Hyperelegant som kun noen få klarer å oppnå.
Vektløs intensitet med med stor konsentrasjon.
For en fruktkvalitet!
Kjølig og fresh - nesten vibrerende.
Sødmefull frukt som danser i ganen helt til sola går ned.
Kirsebærene åpenbarer seg igjen i finishen.
Særdeles lang med de aller fineste tanniner.
Dette drikker supert nå.
Vanskelig å begrense seg her. 94p (2035 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 5/22/2020: A wine in quarantine. Shut down city. Light, highly tart sour cherry and sour strawberry. An unfortunate lack of patience... chasing the dragon of that first bottle opened a year ago.
UPDATE:
I recorked the wine and stuck it in the Fridge for 5 days. As I sip it now, the wine is still overly chilled (although nice on a hotter day!), but has held up and opened nicely to airy light cherry, a kiss of sweet strawberry and sage. As the wine warmed up, 5 days was too long... (2066 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 2/14/2020 & rated 95 points: Pnp. More closed and tannic than I remember. Burgundian Nebbiolo. A wine to sip and savor. Comte brought out more cherry fruit. 95+.
Nose: sandalwood spice, rose, stewed strawberry
Palate: Savory and sour cherry, orange peel, cherry pits, leather.
Structure: Beautifully light bodied. Lacy acidity. A fine drying cherry pit tannic wave. (2382 views) | | | Tasted by hungrybram on 1/17/2020 & rated 94 points: Drinking beautifully now. Pure essence of cherry fruits dancing on the clouds. So so beautiful. (1938 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 9/14/2019: As noted below... a 97 for me, which I freely can see may not be the case for anyone else... I can see the complaints on being thin, watery, etc... I cannot control how this wine resonates with me.
Palate: Very pure and translucent fruit first and foremost... very light and softly sappy.. maybe even slightly fuzzy/dusty. Layered of cherry, strawberry, raspberry, followed up with notes of rose syrup, faint vanilla, integrated tar. A touch of sweetness that marries soft acidity. A bit of cherry, cherry pits, tar and dried rose on a soft finish .
Structure: A clean but soft/satiny mouth feel (not quite silky). An essence of cinnamon spice without the heat that often accompanies cinnamon flavors. I almost forgot to write of tannin, because they are so fine, gentle and light.. yet they are there and do dry out the mouth slightly on the finish. And then a lengthy finish of that soft cherry and strawberry fruit, with some orange zest spice. No heat and I could drink this like water.
So light and gentle, yet so damn elegant. A wine I would love to cradle on a deck overlooking pristine landscape with the tiniest piece of cheese, and not a noisy steakhouse that will dominate the precise elegance. Every time I finish taking a sip of this wine my brain stops, and I can't put a finger on what is causing that... it's hitting some high note for me I cannot explain. Which by my scoring scale is a 97. This feels high, but then I get pained scoring this only a 95. And it pains me to see folks scoring this 93 and the price not dropping! I need to make some friends who own Rinaldi to sell me some wine... because unfortunately the U.S. importer and other retailers are adamant to keep it out of my grubby hands (2015 now over $300!). It makes me genuinely sad I will unlikely own/taste future or past vintages, and confused the winery itself does not profit from these prices. But I will enjoy this bottle slowly... which is hard because I take big sips... (2954 views) | | | Tasted by Robert Pavlovich on 4/7/2019: Lifted and complex aromatics, sappy dark red fruit, turned soil, hints of iodine and black pepper, red rose. Fresh and lithe on the palate, showing a refined, pure fruit character, and silky/satiny mouth feel. The (mostly) dark red fruit has an herbal, green edge to it on entry through the mid palate, turning closer to shades of purple as it expands and coats the mouth as it finishes more broadly than it starts, with good medium plus length and fairly round, moderately assertive tannins.
Shows complex spice throughout, clove, cinnamon, and acceptable amount of vanilla to buttress the acidity and medium, slightly chalky tannin. There’s enough candied fruit to satisfy those who prefer sweetness in their reds, but there’s also a good deal of savory spice together with an herbal/earth component to match. This Barolo is one of the more Burgundian that you’ll find, as there is very little austerity, save for the modest bits of iodine. Some may knock the mid palate for being a bit thin, though with that sacrifice you get less (or zero) heat, and a more drinkable wine. In summation, this just a great effort in a tough vintage, clearly showing a producer who intensely pursues quality. Enjoyed the 2nd half of the bottle two days later and it held together well. (3901 views) | | | Tasted by acyso on 2/15/2019 & rated 93 points: Piedmont; 2/11/2019-2/15/2019 (Alba, Italy): There is a clear difference due to the vintage between this and its younger sibling. I think the delicate red fruit that seems to define the Rinaldi style is still here, but this wine shows its acidity more prominently, and the fruit here isn't as crystalline and pure. This isn't a dirty wine, but it isn't as complex and scintillating as the 2015. Nonetheless I would be more than pleased to have some of this in my cellar -- it'll be an early bloomer for sure, but a tasty one at that. (4578 views) | | | Tasted by SARED on 2/2/2019 & rated 96 points: La Festa Barolo (NYC): Nose: Pure, clear cherry mixed with wood spice and earth (although this earth is perhaps slightly more rancid than my favorite earthy notes from other wines). Very interesting and I wonder how more air would have evolved that earthy note.
Palate: So much hits you at once, in balance, that I can't keep up my tasting note. Excellent mouth feel. Cherry, vanilla, smoke and tar. Creamy and spicy without being woody. Structured, puckering tannin, with a finishing lift of acidity that keeps the experience alive longer than expected. This is pretty freaking good. f I liked the nose better, this would be 97... but that palate made time stop for a second while my brain caught up with what my mouth was drinking. 95-97. Would love to try again. (3028 views) | | | Only displaying the 25 most recent notes - click to see all notes for this wine... |
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GIUSEPPE RINALDI
A family-run production company, it exclusively produces grapes produced from its own vineyards. At the beginning of the 19th century, Battista Rinaldi was a cultivator of some vineyards of the Feudo of the Marquises Falletti di Barolo. Later he became a farmer owner and, initially, a seller of the grapes produced. Later, with his sons, he became a winemaker and bottler. The same company tradition, of character and craft dimensions, today continues with Giuseppe Rinaldi and the fifth and sixth generation daughters. The company produces Barolo for about 60% (Brunate vineyards, Le Coste, Cannubi-San Lorenzo, Ravera) and for the rest, Piedmontese wines such as Dolcetto d’Alba, Barbera d’Alba, Nebbiolo and Freisa delle Langhe, Ruchè.NebbioloNebbiolo is a red grape indigenous to the Piedmont region of Italy in the Northwest. The grape can also be found in other parts of the world, though they are not as respected.
Nebbiolo is often considered the "king of red wines," as it is the grape of the famed wines of Barolo DOCG, Barbaresco DOCG, and Roero DOCG. It is known for high tannins and acidity, but with a distinct finesse. When grown on clay, Nebbiolo can be very powerful, tannic, and require long aging periods to reach its full potential. When grown on sand, the grape exhibits a more approachable body with more elegant fruit and less tannins, but still has high aging potential.
"Nebbiolo" is named for the Italian word, "nebbia", which means "fog", in Italian and rightfully so since there is generally a lot of fog in the foothills of Piedmont during harvest.
Nebbiolo is a late-ripening variety that does best in a continental climate that boasts moderate summers and long autumns. In Piedmont, Nebbiolo is normally harvested in October.
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Varietal character (Appellation America) | Nebbiolo on CellarTrackerBrunateLocated on the southern border of the La Morra, though part of the vineyard is located in the neighboring commune of Barolo. Among the top vineyards on Piedmonte. As in Burgundy the best vineyards are all sub-divided in to small plots and with fragmented ownership. Consists of Tortonian soil. Typically produces more open, velvety, and plush wines. They are feminine, yet possess considerable structure and concentration.
Outline BrunateItaly Italian Wines (ItalianMade.com, The Italian Trade Commission) | Italian Wine Guide on the WineDoctorPiedmont Vignaioli Piemontesi (Italian only)
On weinlagen-infoLanghe Consorzio di Tutela Barolo Barbaresco Alba Langhe e Roero | Union of Producers of Albese Wines (Albeisa)BaroloRegional History:
The wines of Piedmont are noted as far back as Pliny's Natural History. Due to geographic and political isolation, Piedmont was without a natural port for most of its history, which made exportation treacherous and expensive. This left the Piedmontese with little incentive to expand production. Sixteenth-century records show a mere 14% of the Bassa Langa under vine -- most of that low-lying and farmed polyculturally. In the nineteenth century the Marchesa Falletti, a frenchwoman by birth, brought eonologist Louis Oudart from Champagne to create the first dry wines in Piemonte. Along with work in experimental vineyards at Castello Grinzane conducted by Camilo Cavour -- later Conte di Cavour, leader of the Risorgimento and first Prime Minister of Italy -- this was the birth of modern wine in the Piedmont. At the heart of the region and her reputation are Alba and the Langhe Hills. This series of weathered outcroppings south of the Tanaro River is of maritime origin and composed mainly of limestone, sand and clay, known as terra bianca. In these soils -located mainly around the towns of Barolo and Barbaresco -- the ancient allobrogica, now Nebbiolo, achieves its renowned fineness and power.
map of Barolo DOCG
An interesting thread on Traditional vs. Modern Barolo producers:
https://www.wineberserkers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=106291 |
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