Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Brunate, 2021
Some Barolo you buy to drink; Brunate you buy to argue about with friends twenty years from now. Rinaldi is one of Barolo's great traditionalist houses, and Brunate — the storied La Morra cru — is the estate at its most perfumed: rose petal and sour cherry, orange peel, tar and iron, framed by tannins that are firm but never clumsy. Nothing here is dressed up. Native-yeast fermentations, long macerations, and aging in big old Slavonian casks, with no new oak anywhere near it. The 2021 growing season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and this wine wears it well: bright acidity, real depth, a spine that goes the distance. Decant it hard if you're opening one now, but the patient move is to hide it and forget about it.
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Some Barolo you buy to drink; Brunate you buy to argue about with friends twenty years from now. Rinaldi is one of Barolo's great traditionalist houses, and Brunate — the storied La Morra cru — is the estate at its most perfumed: rose petal and sour cherry, orange peel, tar and iron, framed by tannins that are firm but never clumsy. Nothing here is dressed up. Native-yeast fermentations, long macerations, and aging in big old Slavonian casks, with no new oak anywhere near it. The 2021 growing season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and this wine wears it well: bright acidity, real depth, a spine that goes the distance. Decant it hard if you're opening one now, but the patient move is to hide it and forget about it.
