Bottiglia clamorosa. Il mio primo Brunate di Rinaldi, non lo dimenticherò. Colore di sgargiante trasparenza, Bouquet dai mille richiami: rosa, lampone, menta, erbe officinali, goudron, pellame, liquirizia… ogni olfazione diversa dall’altra, non smetteresti mai di sentirlo. La bocca ha l’eleganza e la potenza che si fondono in un assaggio sensuale ma dal grande impatto sulle papille gustative, conservando però una leggerezza che ti permetterebbe di berti serenamente la bottiglia da solo. Grandissimo Barolo.anni davanti a sè ma già adessso una bomba.
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The ‘16 Brunate is showing similar to my note from 2020. It is one of my favorite wines from this vintage, showing the combination of sweetness and finesse, and a bit of a rustic flavor profile, of the Rinaldi wines. We had this next to the 2016 Burlotto Monvigliero. While both showed more sweetness and finesse than a typical Barolo, the Rinaldi was much more in balance and much more complex than the Burlotto.
While initially muted, with air the aromatics became wide open, with sweet red and purple fruit and floral tones, leather, sweet spices, roasted meats, and a balsamic note that became more prominent with air. On the palate, the wine is medium in body, concentrated in flavor but with a very silky texture, with almost no perception of tannin. Everything is in balance, with beautiful sweetness of fruit, acidity, and a number of savory nuances for complexity. I found leather, hard candy like, super sweet red and purple fruit and florals, roasted meats, balsamic, and sweet spices. Purple hard candy like fruit, leather, and balsamic lingered on the finish.
While the flavor profile of this wine is a touch rustic, it has the sweetness and finesse of the finest Barolo. I do think it’d be interesting to compare this to the 2019 vintage. I found the 2019 Brunate tasted in April to be a bit more pure, for better or worse, without the more rustic leather and roasted meat notes I got here.
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Elio Sandri Tasting (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): Glass: Riedel Vinum Pinot Clear, medium ruby-garnet color. Fine, elegant nose. On the palate not optimal, we assumed a not optimal stored bottle. Still very good, but not as bright as it should be. You can feel the elegance, but it is somehow restrained and the finish is a bit nutty. 92
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tasted in piedmont "La Trattoria della Posta" This was singing and mind blowing. This is what I would describe as a nearly perfect traditional barolo. mind
lots of red fruits, already accessible. this wine has an overwhelmingly depth and sniper-precision that you can lose yourself in the glass. compared to the big bordeaux this has less "horizontal" layers (different aromas) but has a LOT more "vertical" complexity (depth). philosophical wine. cant stop sniff and drink it and enjoy the endless aftermusic. the fist in a velvety glove that punches you in the face. driven by a high acidity. a bit of spice. but over all very, very rustical and pure wine. reduced to the minimum, but the minimum is more than enough. no make-up, no wood, no bullshit. this is what winemaking is all about.
Too bad that the market is going crazy about these wines (understandably). But still worth every penny.
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- no decanting, openend and poored for 45minutes in the glass @Restaurante della Posta in Piedmont. - Nose: Boom, fresh and soaring lightness and honest red fruit, nothing overripe and sweet but fully present with red berries, rhubarb, red plums. In ambush come balsamic herbs, crushed stones, blood oranges and iodine. Is a bit more herbaceous than Roagna's Baroli. - Mouth: Has everything you like, high acidity integrated and already quite silky tannins (medium +). Incredible depth and tension. This is big and so far probably the best Barolo I have drunk! - 96-97P
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Beautiful vibrant red color. Ultimate aromas that make you dream of Julia Robert's beautiful smile together with the world's most refined scents of delicious concentrated cherries, roses, tar and truffle. Nice full-bodied wine with this wonderful clean mouthfeel that makes the tears shine throuh. Beautiful fruit of wonderful cherries, raspberries, balsamic vinegar, tar and truffle. Both acidity and tannin structure are brilliantly balancing in this wine that can withstand decades in the cellar. Sublime wine. 97 points.
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Very pale colour. The nose is so tobacco-ey at first, with rich cherry, herbs, leather and smoke; with air the notes become more floral and almost medicinal. It's stunning and intoxicating - one of those wines one would gladly dab as perfume.
More dark cherry on the palate, and a combination of savour and brightness that brings to mind tomato juice. Plenty of tannin at the back end, but so well-managed that it doesn't distract. Elegant and dances across the palate.
Young, obviously, but you can feel the purity and quality - score is as at today but will surely increase.
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Rinaldi's 2016 Brunate is a gorgeous, classic Barolo showing red cherry, rose, truffle, and pine needle. Classically structured, bright acidity, lithe and lively. All the power of Brunate but in such an elegant package. Drink starting 2026.
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2016 Barolo Check-in: Fragrant and quite soft/delicate nose of red fruit, rose petal, and blood orange. Medium+, drying tannins with good acidity, red berries, a hint of cedar and leather, and sweet fruit on the palate. Quite velvety mouthfeel and a very long finish. This was a bit harder to read and not my favorite at first, but it got more and more beautiful with time in the glass and the last sip was just outstanding. Clearly the most elegant of the wines tasted. 95-96+
Note: Bottle was opened a few days before tasting.
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Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Macerated for a month with the skins. Aged for 3½ years in large botti casks. 14% alcohol.
Rather pale and very translucent brick-red color with a pale, burnt clay orange rim. Fragrant and more savory than sweet nose with an understated hint of bretty funk typical of Rinaldi, followed by fine-tuned aromas of black cherries, some sun-baked earth, a little bit of roasted game, light leathery tones and a hint of balsamico. The wine is dry, sinewy and slightly funky on the palate with a full body and nuanced flavors of ripe cranberries, sour cherry bitterness, meaty umami, some farmhouse funk, a little bit of phenolic peppery spice, light bretty notes of leather saddle, a tart-yet-sweet hint of lingonberry jam and a touch of charred game. The wine is high in acidity with firm, grippy tannins, making the overall feel wonderfully structured but not too aggressive or tightly-wound. The finish is savory, quite grippy and gently funky with very long and quite intense flavors of dark forest fruits, leather saddle, earth, some crunchy cranberries, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light charred meat tones, a mushroomy hint of truffle and a smoky touch of phenolic spice.
An outstanding old-school Barolo and a textbook example of Rinaldi's style in youth: the wine is savory and quite tannic, yet remarkably silky and not forbiddingly structure-driven in style despite its young age. The wine speaks volumes on its aging potential, yet it is relatively approachable for such a young Barolo. The fruit here feels wonderfully nuanced and detailed, yet the wine exhibits the typical, rustic funk that is very typical of Rinaldi. The wine isn't noticeably bretty or funky, but comparing it to cleaner, more polished Nebbiolos makes the funky edge here pretty obvious. All in all, a very beautiful Barolo that has almost everything I want from in a well-made, traditionalist Nebbiolo. Exceptional already now, but can get even better with extended cellaring. At the moment the best 2016 Barolo I've tasted. Very highly recommended.
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Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate 2016. Mer tilkneppet enn samme vin i fjor. Likevel fantastisk aromatikk - ren og forførende. Sylskarp nerve, vanvittig konsentrasjon og en fabelaktig fruktkvalitet. Utrolig intens gjennom hele smakskurven. Uendelig lang finish med de fineste tanniner. Mener jeg var 1-2 poeng høyere i fjor - 95p+ for denne gang.
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On the nose, I found very fresh, high-pitched aromatics of blue-to-purple toned fruit, violets, tobacco, roasted meat, and a touch of balsamic. On the palate, the texture is incredibly refined and almost weightless, with finely integrated tannin, drinking more like a fine burgundy than a young Barolo. I don't think that I have ever tasted a young Barolo with this level of finesse, and frankly it makes the other 2016 Barolo I've tasted appear a bit clumsy in comparison. Purple-toned fruit, violets, and balsamic reappear on the palate, with a bit of leather at the back end. The fruit possesses a striking level of sweetness, and the tone (which I describe a 'blue to purple') is hard to describe but to me is a signature of the Rinaldi Brunate in recent years, but fairly unique compared to other Barolo. There is a nice level of concentration on the palate - this is not a diluted wine - despite the feeling of weightlessness.
The '16 Brunate is, for my preferences, my favorite 2016 Barolo to-date. It lacks the power of some of the other wines of the vintage, but possesses a level of elegance that is to me unparalleled in young Barolo. While Rinaldi has been moving towards greater elegance for a while now, this is a further step forward in my opinion vs. the 2013. It will be interesting to see how this wine ages over time compared to the 2010 & prior vintages of Rinaldi that pack a bit more power but arguably less finesse. While there may be some concern that this wine is a bit too light on the palate to age appropriately, Burgundy with this level of refinement appears to age very nicely so it's not clear to me that there's any cause for concern.
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Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Brunate 16. Åpnet nå. Mørkere i frukten, men fremdeles elegant. Powerful, spicy og deilig. Lyser opp med luft. Sparker som en hest i munn. Voldsom struktur, men holder seg fortsatt på den elegante siden. Konsentrert og fresh med meget bestemte tanniner. Her også en utrolig fin nerve. Utrolig lang. Dette trenger tid. 96p
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On the nose, balsam, roses, and deep perfume. Powerful, structured yet expansive and breadth to go with its vertical structure with great inner mouth perfume. Sap and density. Structured. Power and grace. Terrific. 97+
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tasted that one at the estate, on a Botte sample, and it shows extremely great potential, leafy and sanguine orange on the nose, then extremely long, lingers for minutes ... Wait and see, to me the best wine today... with Acclivi 2015 from Burlotto
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2/2/2024 - fadincvaros Likes this wine: 95 Points
Bottiglia clamorosa. Il mio primo Brunate di Rinaldi, non lo dimenticherò. Colore di sgargiante trasparenza, Bouquet dai mille richiami: rosa, lampone, menta, erbe officinali, goudron, pellame, liquirizia… ogni olfazione diversa dall’altra, non smetteresti mai di sentirlo. La bocca ha l’eleganza e la potenza che si fondono in un assaggio sensuale ma dal grande impatto sulle papille gustative, conservando però una leggerezza che ti permetterebbe di berti serenamente la bottiglia da solo. Grandissimo Barolo.anni davanti a sè ma già adessso una bomba.
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11/21/2023 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 97 Points
The ‘16 Brunate is showing similar to my note from 2020. It is one of my favorite wines from this vintage, showing the combination of sweetness and finesse, and a bit of a rustic flavor profile, of the Rinaldi wines. We had this next to the 2016 Burlotto Monvigliero. While both showed more sweetness and finesse than a typical Barolo, the Rinaldi was much more in balance and much more complex than the Burlotto.
While initially muted, with air the aromatics became wide open, with sweet red and purple fruit and floral tones, leather, sweet spices, roasted meats, and a balsamic note that became more prominent with air. On the palate, the wine is medium in body, concentrated in flavor but with a very silky texture, with almost no perception of tannin. Everything is in balance, with beautiful sweetness of fruit, acidity, and a number of savory nuances for complexity. I found leather, hard candy like, super sweet red and purple fruit and florals, roasted meats, balsamic, and sweet spices. Purple hard candy like fruit, leather, and balsamic lingered on the finish.
While the flavor profile of this wine is a touch rustic, it has the sweetness and finesse of the finest Barolo. I do think it’d be interesting to compare this to the 2019 vintage. I found the 2019 Brunate tasted in April to be a bit more pure, for better or worse, without the more rustic leather and roasted meat notes I got here.
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11/17/2023 - NoTrollingerPlease wrote: 92 Points
Elio Sandri Tasting (Freiheit Vinothek, Ulm, Germany): Glass: Riedel Vinum Pinot
Clear, medium ruby-garnet color. Fine, elegant nose. On the palate not optimal, we assumed a not optimal stored bottle. Still very good, but not as bright as it should be. You can feel the elegance, but it is somehow restrained and the finish is a bit nutty. 92
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8/13/2023 - johnh1001 wrote: 94 Points
Deep, dense and dark fruit. Long and polished but a bit closed even on day 2. Will be amazing.
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5/23/2023 - aquacongas Likes this wine: 95 Points
not blind
Fantastic young Barolo. Makes fun even in this young stage. Violet, leather, roses and some herb cherry notes. 94-95
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3/25/2022 - La Sprezzatura wrote: 98 Points
tasted in piedmont "La Trattoria della Posta"
This was singing and mind blowing. This is what I would describe as a nearly perfect traditional barolo. mind
lots of red fruits, already accessible.
this wine has an overwhelmingly depth and sniper-precision that you can lose yourself in the glass. compared to the big bordeaux this has less "horizontal" layers (different aromas) but has a LOT more "vertical" complexity (depth). philosophical wine. cant stop sniff and drink it and enjoy the endless aftermusic. the fist in a velvety glove that punches you in the face. driven by a high acidity. a bit of spice. but over all very, very rustical and pure wine. reduced to the minimum, but the minimum is more than enough. no make-up, no wood, no bullshit. this is what winemaking is all about.
Too bad that the market is going crazy about these wines (understandably). But still worth every penny.
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3/24/2022 - J_H Likes this wine: 97 Points
- no decanting, openend and poored for 45minutes in the glass @Restaurante della Posta in Piedmont.
- Nose: Boom, fresh and soaring lightness and honest red fruit, nothing overripe and sweet but fully present with red berries, rhubarb, red plums. In ambush come balsamic herbs, crushed stones, blood oranges and iodine. Is a bit more herbaceous than Roagna's Baroli.
- Mouth: Has everything you like, high acidity integrated and already quite silky tannins (medium +). Incredible depth and tension. This is big and so far probably the best Barolo I have drunk!
- 96-97P
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1/5/2022 - Decarlor wrote: 100 Points
A legend! To me, the best Barolo ever tried
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10/11/2021 - Vas19 wrote:
You can absolutely see the class in this wine, but this is just infanticide right now. Bury it for a decade and it will be so much better.
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4/24/2021 - AWBryce wrote:
cigar box, citrus, oats, dark berries, tea leaves; palate shows ripe fruits, decent length, big tannin. excellent, needs time to resolve.
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4/3/2021 - Andre Brattland wrote: 97 Points
Beautiful vibrant red color. Ultimate aromas that make you dream of Julia Robert's beautiful smile together with the world's most refined scents of delicious concentrated cherries, roses, tar and truffle. Nice full-bodied wine with this wonderful clean mouthfeel that makes the tears shine throuh. Beautiful fruit of wonderful cherries, raspberries, balsamic vinegar, tar and truffle. Both acidity and tannin structure are brilliantly balancing in this wine that can withstand decades in the cellar. Sublime wine. 97 points.
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2/27/2021 - NickA Likes this wine: 95 Points
Barolo Boys Special: Brunate Cru (Zoom!): Plot at 310m, 36 mos in big botte.
Very pale colour. The nose is so tobacco-ey at first, with rich cherry, herbs, leather and smoke; with air the notes become more floral and almost medicinal. It's stunning and intoxicating - one of those wines one would gladly dab as perfume.
More dark cherry on the palate, and a combination of savour and brightness that brings to mind tomato juice. Plenty of tannin at the back end, but so well-managed that it doesn't distract. Elegant and dances across the palate.
Young, obviously, but you can feel the purity and quality - score is as at today but will surely increase.
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2/26/2021 - rlove wrote: 96 Points
Rinaldi's 2016 Brunate is a gorgeous, classic Barolo showing red cherry, rose, truffle, and pine needle. Classically structured, bright acidity, lithe and lively. All the power of Brunate but in such an elegant package. Drink starting 2026.
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2/9/2021 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 96 Points
2016 Barolo Check-in: Fragrant and quite soft/delicate nose of red fruit, rose petal, and blood orange. Medium+, drying tannins with good acidity, red berries, a hint of cedar and leather, and sweet fruit on the palate. Quite velvety mouthfeel and a very long finish. This was a bit harder to read and not my favorite at first, but it got more and more beautiful with time in the glass and the last sip was just outstanding. Clearly the most elegant of the wines tasted. 95-96+
Note: Bottle was opened a few days before tasting.
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9/23/2020 - forceberry wrote: 96 Points
Fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts. Macerated for a month with the skins. Aged for 3½ years in large botti casks. 14% alcohol.
Rather pale and very translucent brick-red color with a pale, burnt clay orange rim. Fragrant and more savory than sweet nose with an understated hint of bretty funk typical of Rinaldi, followed by fine-tuned aromas of black cherries, some sun-baked earth, a little bit of roasted game, light leathery tones and a hint of balsamico. The wine is dry, sinewy and slightly funky on the palate with a full body and nuanced flavors of ripe cranberries, sour cherry bitterness, meaty umami, some farmhouse funk, a little bit of phenolic peppery spice, light bretty notes of leather saddle, a tart-yet-sweet hint of lingonberry jam and a touch of charred game. The wine is high in acidity with firm, grippy tannins, making the overall feel wonderfully structured but not too aggressive or tightly-wound. The finish is savory, quite grippy and gently funky with very long and quite intense flavors of dark forest fruits, leather saddle, earth, some crunchy cranberries, a little bit of sour cherry bitterness, light charred meat tones, a mushroomy hint of truffle and a smoky touch of phenolic spice.
An outstanding old-school Barolo and a textbook example of Rinaldi's style in youth: the wine is savory and quite tannic, yet remarkably silky and not forbiddingly structure-driven in style despite its young age. The wine speaks volumes on its aging potential, yet it is relatively approachable for such a young Barolo. The fruit here feels wonderfully nuanced and detailed, yet the wine exhibits the typical, rustic funk that is very typical of Rinaldi. The wine isn't noticeably bretty or funky, but comparing it to cleaner, more polished Nebbiolos makes the funky edge here pretty obvious. All in all, a very beautiful Barolo that has almost everything I want from in a well-made, traditionalist Nebbiolo. Exceptional already now, but can get even better with extended cellaring. At the moment the best 2016 Barolo I've tasted. Very highly recommended.
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7/20/2020 - hajoha wrote: 95 Points
Giuseppe Rinaldi Brunate 2016.
Mer tilkneppet enn samme vin i fjor.
Likevel fantastisk aromatikk - ren og forførende.
Sylskarp nerve, vanvittig konsentrasjon og en fabelaktig fruktkvalitet.
Utrolig intens gjennom hele smakskurven.
Uendelig lang finish med de fineste tanniner.
Mener jeg var 1-2 poeng høyere i fjor - 95p+ for denne gang.
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5/17/2020 - Robmcl920 Likes this wine: 97 Points
On the nose, I found very fresh, high-pitched aromatics of blue-to-purple toned fruit, violets, tobacco, roasted meat, and a touch of balsamic. On the palate, the texture is incredibly refined and almost weightless, with finely integrated tannin, drinking more like a fine burgundy than a young Barolo. I don't think that I have ever tasted a young Barolo with this level of finesse, and frankly it makes the other 2016 Barolo I've tasted appear a bit clumsy in comparison. Purple-toned fruit, violets, and balsamic reappear on the palate, with a bit of leather at the back end. The fruit possesses a striking level of sweetness, and the tone (which I describe a 'blue to purple') is hard to describe but to me is a signature of the Rinaldi Brunate in recent years, but fairly unique compared to other Barolo. There is a nice level of concentration on the palate - this is not a diluted wine - despite the feeling of weightlessness.
The '16 Brunate is, for my preferences, my favorite 2016 Barolo to-date. It lacks the power of some of the other wines of the vintage, but possesses a level of elegance that is to me unparalleled in young Barolo. While Rinaldi has been moving towards greater elegance for a while now, this is a further step forward in my opinion vs. the 2013. It will be interesting to see how this wine ages over time compared to the 2010 & prior vintages of Rinaldi that pack a bit more power but arguably less finesse. While there may be some concern that this wine is a bit too light on the palate to age appropriately, Burgundy with this level of refinement appears to age very nicely so it's not clear to me that there's any cause for concern.
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10/4/2019 - hajoha wrote: 96 Points
Giuseppe Rinaldi Barolo Brunate 16.
Åpnet nå.
Mørkere i frukten, men fremdeles elegant.
Powerful, spicy og deilig.
Lyser opp med luft.
Sparker som en hest i munn.
Voldsom struktur, men holder seg fortsatt på den elegante siden.
Konsentrert og fresh med meget bestemte tanniner.
Her også en utrolig fin nerve.
Utrolig lang.
Dette trenger tid. 96p
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5/21/2019 - cct wrote:
WIth Carlotta
In barrel
On the nose, balsam, roses, and deep perfume. Powerful, structured yet expansive and breadth to go with its vertical structure with great inner mouth perfume. Sap and density. Structured. Power and grace. Terrific. 97+
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5/21/2019 - Stanrocks Likes this wine: 93 Points
tasted that one at the estate, on a Botte sample, and it shows extremely great potential, leafy and sanguine orange on the nose, then extremely long, lingers for minutes ... Wait and see, to me the best wine today... with Acclivi 2015 from Burlotto
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