Carlotto hosted us. It was good to be back in th cantina and see and feel the history here.
- 2023 Giuseppe Rinaldi Barbera d'Alba - Italy, Piedmont, Alba, Barbera d'Alba (5/7/2025)
With Carlotta
Fresh pure barbera fruit violet. Mid weighted and fresh. Cool fruit for tear. Excellent acidity. Very good balance. Cool spice notes on back end. Outstanding (90 points) - 2023 Giuseppe Rinaldi Freisa Langhe - Italy, Piedmont, Langhe, Langhe DOC (5/7/2025)
With Carlotta
Tar. Dark berry fruit. Little iron. Structured iron tar violet. Midweighted and good finesse for freisa. Little firm greenish tannins. Very good., but not a strong showing for this bottling.
With Carlotta
Cool Nebbiolo fruit with a little savory cured meat, tar and iron.Midweighte and graceful with nice inner mouth perfume and balsam. Pure unadulterated nebbiolo fruit and good balancing acidity. Graceful and less is more. Honest LN not a bay Barolo. Very good. (89 points)
With Carlotta
An open nose with Cannubi perfume, roses and redder Nebbiolo fruit. This draws you in and has some nuance. Midweighted and sapid yet fresh on the plate with beautiful sense of clarity with more rose balsam. Quite long on the back end with tar, balsam and spice. Weightless power. Elegant. (95 points)
With Carlotta
A haunting nose with cooler and deeper fruit, violet and rose, tar, balsam. powerful yet fleeting. On the plate, there’s terrific clarity depth. Power without weight. Iron fist in a velvet glove type depth with terrific perfume. Harmony. Wow. Ripe firm tannins. Very long. Fleeting subtlety. A great Brunate. (98 points)
With Carlotta
Savory and meatier than the other tow Baroli with nettle, and darker nebbiolo fruit. There’s some balsam and dried green herbs as well. More overtly powerful than the two others. It’s structured, vertical, brooding, relatively dense and sapid. with firm, ripe tannins. It’s less charming but more powerful. Still graceful but less so than the other bottlings. Quite long on the back end. In general, I do not adore Bussia in general, but if you do, you will probably like this a lot more than I. (94 points)
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I love being in the cantina and to see Carlotto and Marta carry on their father’s and family’s legacy. Especial treat. the Brunate is fantastic this year.