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Saturday, April 15, 2023 - Tasted from magnum, the ‘04 Brunate is fresh and vibrant and starting to enter an ideal drinking window for my preferences. The nose was beautifully perfumed and complex with balsamic, sweet spices, roasted meats, tobacco, dark red plum fruit, menthol, and lavender. It is less about obvious fruit at this point, but the fruit tones that are there are beautiful and sweet. On the palate, the ‘04 is medium in body and incredibly finessed, still showing plenty of tannin but very fine grained and well integrated into the wine, while medium to high acidity maintains freshness. I found dark red plum fruit, sweet spices, balsamic tones, licorice, and towards the finish, purple to black hard candy like, very sweet fruit tones, which I consider characteristic of the Rinaldi Brunate. In terms of texture, the ‘04 is somewhere in between the more masculine wines of 1996-1999 and the current releases from Rinaldi, but in absolute terms this is a very silky Barolo.

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