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| Entrance to the Cantina Rinaldi. |
On a slightly cold Friday winter morning in February a friend and I walked to the Giuseppe Rinaldi Cantina to meet one of the daughters, Marta. The sun was shining magically on the Le coste vineyards as we approached.
The annual production of Barolo here is around 16,000 bottles. Rinaldi has 1 hectare of vineyards in Brunate and .5 hectares in Le Coste which produces perhaps their most famous blend of Barolo. The other vineyards for Nebbiolo are Cannubi San Lorenzo and Ravera. The biggest of the four plots is Ravera (3 hectares) which also holds Dolcetto, Barbera and Freisa vines and is used as well for the limited production of their excellent Langhe Nebbiolo.
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| 8 AM Early morning sun in the Le Coste vineyards of the Rinaldi estate looking south. |
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| Marta pouring us a sample of 2015 Langhe Nebbiolo from cask which she explains is still a little nervous at the moment. This will be bottled in one week (at the end of February, 2017). |
