The Story
A magnum of Rinaldi is a long-term bet and a party trick at once. Tre Tine means 'three vats,' for the three lots — Ravera, Cannubi San Lorenzo and Le Coste — vinified separately and blended — the estate's old-school answer to Barolo's single-vineyard arms race — and it's Rinaldi's most savory bottling: sour cherry and dried rose, tea leaf, salt and iron, framed by firm, honest tannin. Native yeasts, long macerations, big old Slavonian casks; the family playbook hasn't changed. The 2021 season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and the large format will slow this wine's evolution to a crawl, stretching the drinking window well past what a standard bottle offers. Buy it for a table of people you like, in a year you can't name yet.
Description
A magnum of Rinaldi is a long-term bet and a party trick at once. Tre Tine means 'three vats,' for the three lots — Ravera, Cannubi San Lorenzo and Le Coste — vinified separately and blended — the estate's old-school answer to Barolo's single-vineyard arms race — and it's Rinaldi's most savory bottling: sour cherry and dried rose, tea leaf, salt and iron, framed by firm, honest tannin. Native yeasts, long macerations, big old Slavonian casks; the family playbook hasn't changed. The 2021 season was a classic, cool-edged one in Piedmont, and the large format will slow this wine's evolution to a crawl, stretching the drinking window well past what a standard bottle offers. Buy it for a table of people you like, in a year you can't name yet.
