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
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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.
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(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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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. 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.
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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.
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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.
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).
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
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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...
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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...
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.
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.
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A cooler than average fruit profile for the bottling, with roses, violets, pure and deep, yet graceful fruit, and tar. Midweighted on the palate, less powerful than usual, but maintaining lovely balance. It grows some savory notes with time. A graceful, mid weighted, elegant rendition of this wine. Outstanding for the vintage.
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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.
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Opened as a science experiments. On PnP it was good right out of bottle...typical rose, tar, balsamic, cherry...beautiful aromas and silky entry. After three hours it shut down....but funny enough at hour 5 it woke up again. So strange but glad I got some of this “lesser vintage”. I guess it will shutdown soon so will cellar away for awhile
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Very lovely. A bit more backwards than the 15 in terms of the fruit, but this is showing very well. More secondary and savoury elements, brighter acidity.
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2018 Visit to Giuseppe Rinaldi with Carlotta Rinaldi (Barolo, Piemonte): Again a maceration less than 25 days on skins. More spice on bouquet than the Tre Tine, also more earth. Notes of brushwood, tar, porcini, soy and forest floor. In the mouth, exhibiting more weight and power than the Tre Tine. A large volume of earthy fruit with chewy, grippy tannins on the very long, dry finish. Balsamic, black cherries, slate and dried herbs. A special wine but, this young, less immediately attractive than the Tre Tine.
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Tasted at the cantina with Marta. In a less than celebrated vintage they simply outshined most of the vino I’ve tasted. It has its typical brunate features of balsamic, tar, violets, deep cherry. Silky tannins. I asked for two retastes from Marta...it was that good. Yes it was super young but it was definitely open for business- was opened the night before and likely made a big difference on the showing.
Med luft blir den fantastisk sexy og elegant på duft. Parfyme, blomster, spice, svak lakris og røde bær. Vakker med flott intensitet. Fløyels munnfølelse. Dette er en tilgjengelig årgang. Super elegant på smak også, med nydelig frukt. Konsentrert med en pirrende friskhet. Luftig intensitet. Presis utgang med utrolig finkornede tanniner. Meget lang. Ung, men likevel gir den stor drikkeglede nå. Strålende vin!
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Tasted at the winery. Another very impressive wine from this maybe underestimated vintage in Barolo. Brighter and even more red-toned than the 2013, it has superb lift and bright red fruit, balsamic notes, pepper, tobacco. It's medium+ bodied and at this stage significantly lighter than 2013, nervous and high acidity with medium-high tannin that feel well integrated and ripe. Very good length. A nervous, bright and super fresh Brunate that is full of tension. It clearly shows the cool vintage conditions but doesn't feel diluted or unripe at all. Excellent! (96-98)
4/21/2024 - SARED wrote: 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
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4/13/2024 - KimHartman wrote: 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.
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3/1/2024 - vvWine.ch wrote: 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.
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2/3/2024 - SARED wrote: 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.
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9/17/2023 - sooper65 wrote: 93 Points
Yeah baby. Lovely soft Nebb. Linear and pure. Mid weight and the better for it.
Super duper
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5/5/2023 - Robmcl920 wrote: 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.
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4/27/2023 - PC73 wrote: 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
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4/15/2023 - AWBryce wrote:
Tea leaves, powerful, dark cherry liquored. Palate is well. Structured, good fruit and chewey. Long finish
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3/26/2023 - jwsmith wrote: 94 Points
I dint think there could be a better 2014 Barolo ... Its just that good....
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12/2/2021 - MC2 Wines Likes this wine:
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.
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6/12/2021 - jwsmith wrote: 94 Points
Classic asian spice rose petal delicous really the best 14 I have had so elegant...
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5/13/2021 - Torchy wrote: 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.
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3/24/2021 - SARED wrote:
. 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.
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3/3/2021 - joshabramson Likes this wine: 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.
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2/13/2021 - jwsmith wrote: 94 Points
Gorgeous color an nose right out of the gate delicious... Probably wine of the vintage or close.
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12/27/2020 - Tim Heaton Likes this wine:
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.
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12/12/2020 - jrick Likes this wine: 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).
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8/3/2020 - hajoha wrote: 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
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5/22/2020 - SARED wrote:
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...
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2/14/2020 - SARED Likes this wine: 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.
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1/17/2020 - hungrybram Likes this wine: 94 Points
Drinking beautifully now. Pure essence of cherry fruits dancing on the clouds. So so beautiful.
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9/14/2019 - SARED wrote:
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...
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4/7/2019 - Robert Pavlovich Likes this wine:
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.
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2/15/2019 - acyso wrote: 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.
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2/2/2019 - cct wrote: 94 Points
2014 Barolo at Festa dal Barolo (Del Posto, NYC): 2014 vintage tasting at 2019 Festa dal Barolo
A cooler than average fruit profile for the bottling, with roses, violets, pure and deep, yet graceful fruit, and tar. Midweighted on the palate, less powerful than usual, but maintaining lovely balance. It grows some savory notes with time. A graceful, mid weighted, elegant rendition of this wine. Outstanding for the vintage.
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2/2/2019 - SARED Likes this wine: 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.
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1/4/2019 - theriffraph Likes this wine: 97 Points
Opened as a science experiments. On PnP it was good right out of bottle...typical rose, tar, balsamic, cherry...beautiful aromas and silky entry. After three hours it shut down....but funny enough at hour 5 it woke up again. So strange but glad I got some of this “lesser vintage”. I guess it will shutdown soon so will cellar away for awhile
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1/2/2019 - AWBryce wrote:
Very lovely. A bit more backwards than the 15 in terms of the fruit, but this is showing very well. More secondary and savoury elements, brighter acidity.
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9/19/2018 - HowardNZ Likes this wine:
2018 Visit to Giuseppe Rinaldi with Carlotta Rinaldi (Barolo, Piemonte): Again a maceration less than 25 days on skins. More spice on bouquet than the Tre Tine, also more earth. Notes of brushwood, tar, porcini, soy and forest floor. In the mouth, exhibiting more weight and power than the Tre Tine. A large volume of earthy fruit with chewy, grippy tannins on the very long, dry finish. Balsamic, black cherries, slate and dried herbs. A special wine but, this young, less immediately attractive than the Tre Tine.
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6/8/2018 - theriffraph Likes this wine: 97 Points
Tasted at the cantina with Marta. In a less than celebrated vintage they simply outshined most of the vino I’ve tasted. It has its typical brunate features of balsamic, tar, violets, deep cherry. Silky tannins. I asked for two retastes from Marta...it was that good. Yes it was super young but it was definitely open for business- was opened the night before and likely made a big difference on the showing.
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5/4/2018 - hajoha wrote: 94 Points
Med luft blir den fantastisk sexy og elegant på duft.
Parfyme, blomster, spice, svak lakris og røde bær.
Vakker med flott intensitet.
Fløyels munnfølelse.
Dette er en tilgjengelig årgang.
Super elegant på smak også, med nydelig frukt.
Konsentrert med en pirrende friskhet.
Luftig intensitet.
Presis utgang med utrolig finkornede tanniner.
Meget lang.
Ung, men likevel gir den stor drikkeglede nå.
Strålende vin!
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9/8/2017 - NostraBacchus Likes this wine: 97 Points
Tasted at the winery. Another very impressive wine from this maybe underestimated vintage in Barolo. Brighter and even more red-toned than the 2013, it has superb lift and bright red fruit, balsamic notes, pepper, tobacco. It's medium+ bodied and at this stage significantly lighter than 2013, nervous and high acidity with medium-high tannin that feel well integrated and ripe. Very good length. A nervous, bright and super fresh Brunate that is full of tension. It clearly shows the cool vintage conditions but doesn't feel diluted or unripe at all. Excellent! (96-98)
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5/11/2017 - cct wrote:
With Carlotta
In Botti
Perfumed, with aromatic herbs. Good sap and little cherry cough drops, nice balance and understated Mid weighted. Cooler minty finish. Lovely.
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