Tasting Notes
John Gilman 93
The 71 Rinaldi is another vintage that I have had on a couple of occasions in the last few months, which is really not too difficult an assignment to accept! This is a beautiful bottle of old school Barolo just entering into its apogee of maturity. The bouquet is deep, pure and wonderfully complex, as it offers up an a point melange of desiccated cherries, orange peel, licorice, forest floor, tar, fresh herb tones and dried roses in the upper register. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and beautifully delineated, with a fine core, perfectly integrated acids, melting tannins and stunning length and grip on the wonderfully resolved and wide open finish. A wonderful bottle of Barolo with decades of stunning drinking still ahead of it. (Drink between 2010-2030)
