Visit to Giuseppe Rinaldi

Visiting Rinaldi with Carlotta was a fantastic experience. Not that this is an out of consensus call, but to me these wines are at the very top of Barolo in terms of my enjoyment drinking them. The sweetness of the fruit and this unique, hard candy like, often purple in tone, note I get in many of the wines is hard to resist. The tannin quality is as good as it gets.

The ‘19s are classic wines that should age well but were also super enjoyable immediately after being poured. The lineup including Bussia now showcases three unique expressions of Barolo, with the Tre Tine showing a very classic red fruit & roses expression and the Brunate / Bussia darker and more exotic. The new Bussia is perhaps the best wine of the three in terms of aging potential and complexity, while the Tre Tine was most enjoyable right now.

• 2019 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Brunate

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo

  (4/15/2023)

  Brief tasting at the winery. The ‘19 Brunate was beautiful and as with the other two Barolo, one of the more accessible wines I’ve tasted in 2019, not to say it also doesn’t have the material to age well.
  
  The nose was darker than the Tre Tine but lighter than the Bussia, with dark red to black cherry fruits, menthol, sweet spices, and a touch of balsamic. On the palate, the Brunate is super finessed with minimal perception of tannin, showing the most refined of the three wines. The fruit tones are super sweet, which I almost always find in the rinaldi wines and to me makes them so easy to crave. Alongside dark fruit and sweet spices, I found some herbal tones like mint that I found across the wines.

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• 2019 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Tre Tine

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo

  (4/15/2023)

  Brief tasting at the winery. The ‘19 Tre Tine is a gorgeous young wine, more accessible than most ‘19s I’ve tasted and also more finessed than I recall prior vintages of Tre Tine, which I’ve found to show a more classic structure and tannin profile than the Brunate.
  
  On the nose, the ‘19 Tre Tine was classic Barolo with sweet red cherry fruit and fresh red roses, not (with a single glass) showing much complexity right now, but very attractive. On the palate, the Tre Tine was more finessed than I recall this wine in prior vintages, with plenty of tannin but very fine grained and integrated already. It was still more tannic than the Brunate alongside it, but far less than the Bussia. I found rich red fruit and fresh red roses, licorice, and peppermint like, sweet herbal tones. As always at rinaldi, the sweetness of the fruit really stood out.

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• 2019 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Bussia

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Barolo

  (4/15/2023)

  Brief tasting at the winery. The ‘19 Bussia is the “biggest” wine at Rinaldi in 2019, showing a darker flavor profile than the Tre Tine and Brunate and also a slightly less finessed texture. On one hand it clearly fits into the lineup, but on the other hand it brings something new, so it seems they have handled this first vintage well.
  
  On the nose, I found dark red plum and black fruit tones, sweet spices, licorice, and balsamic. On the palate, the Bussia is more full bodied than the Tre Tine or Brunate, and has slightly more aggressive tannins. Dark plum fruit, sweet spices, and mint flow across the palate with a ton of energy, but on the back end I still find the sort of super sweet hard candy like fruit i associate with rinaldi.
  
  I would assume this has the most upside for aging of the three Barolo.

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• 2021 Giuseppe Rinaldi Nebbiolo Langhe

  Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Langhe DOC

  (4/17/2023)

  Brief impression tasting at the winery. The ‘21 Langhe is super pretty. I found beautifully sweet pure red berry fruit, roses, and orange peel on the nose, which was immediately aromatic. On the palate, sweet red raspberry, roses, and menthol flowed across the palate, with a smooth texture and lots of energy. This is drinking really well. This spends 18 month in botte and is mostly Ravera fruit with some Bussia.

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