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Giuseppe Rinaldi

Although I visited Rinaldi near the end of my mid-September tour, he was a good two weeks short of picking his barbera and nebbiolo, in spite of the fact that many of his colleagues were already beginning to harvest their Barolo vines. A few key facts about Rinaldi, who always looks like he has just come in from the vines (he probably has) and was wearing an "Alcoholics Unanimous" tee shirt on my latest visit: he smokes small brown Tuscan cigars, even in the cellar; loves dogs, Sonny Rollins and vintage motorcycles; and refers to his wife as "la tigresse." He also makes some of the best old-school Barolos left. Rinaldi describes his 2008s as "fatter and more Barolo than the subtler 2007s, and better than the 2009s as well. Barolo needs long, slow, regular ripening, with cool nights, and the nebbiolo ripened too quickly in the warmer summers in '07 and '09."

From Focus on Barolo and Barbaresco (Nov 2011) by Stephen Tanzer

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2007 Barolo Cannubi S. Lorenzo Ravera

Release Price: $130

Color: Red

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