Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Riserva Seleccione Brunata, 1989 (1.5L) TEST with roots back to 1672

with roots back to 1672 when a bishop built the palazzo

big imagination

before aging oxidatively to develop richness and complexity

and a structure that speaks to the Ponca soils—that crumbling mixture of marl and sandstone forged by millions of years of Alpine tectonics

The 2019 vintage greets with an aromatic profile of ripe dark fruit—blackberry

Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Riserva Seleccione Brunata, 1989 (1.5L) TEST with roots back to 1672A magnum of one of the rarest and most coveted Rinaldi bottlings ever made. From the late 1960s until 1990, Battista Rinaldi separated a parcel of his Brunate holding to bottle a top tier Riserva 'Selezione Brunata' only in the greatest vintages. 1989 was one of the last (Battista died in 1992) and is widely regarded as one of the legendary classical Piedmont vintages of the modern era, paired here with one of the legendary bottlings of that era.