The Barolo Beppe Rinaldi

I've never said that I love hats?  More and more I am weird like! When I decided to go to Barolo with her friend Alessia Bianchi, I put a pink one, perhaps a little flashy, I suppose at least seen the curious eyes of passers-by. Obvious ... what's wrong to give a little 'color and spice to life, everything is already so gray!  The same Beppe Rinaldi from my view, when I showed up entering his cellar,  puzzled told me: “But that sun is out!?“

The opportunity to go to Barolo was presented with a "Wine Tasting Experience" organized by the Strada del Barolo in collaboration with the Consortium of Barolo and Barbaresco at the Museum of Wine-WiMu.

The tasting conducted by Mauro Daniel Agricola Holds Cuneo, He has allowed us to know five good vintage labels 2007. But not only, there was talk of history, of territory and traditions.  With Mauro I debated natural wines, speech very dear to me. Even among producers the trend is to move away more and more from chemical adulteration albeit still allowed,  pointing to a product more clean and quality.

It was time for lunch. A nice walk allowed us to find a lovely little restaurant near the corner of flowers. Of course we could not make us miss the classic bagna cauda.  Alessia tried to ask it without garlic, but the owner refused rightly contesting the impossibility of the thing!  I could only agree ... After dessert and coffee, away ... we were ready for the second part of the afternoon.

Before leaving I asked Mauro your advice for the visit of a cellar close them. I told him: "I recommend, I would like to visit a winery run by a character of those that I like, combative and character, who believe in the territory and that battagliano against those who ill-treats ". The response was immediate, Beppe Rinaldi.

They took a short walk on foot to be in front of the banner Cellar Rinaldi. We met at the entrance Carlotta, one of the two daughters of Beppe. He explained that he was already on a visit of a group of Marche. To catch up to me I tell her a bit 'of their history.

You should know that this company is now passed down for generations. He began his great-great grandfather of Carlotta, who along with his cousin Barale, wine produced up to the moment when divided by the latter, He passed the reins to his son Battista Rinaldi, father Beppe. It was he who built the current winery whose work ended in 1916. A graduate of the Wine School of Alba, It was distinguished by the liveliness of character,  for moral rectitude, and for the balance and consistency in the conduct of his life and its vineyards.

Gifts sent to his son Beppe, which according to many is awkward for his battles in defense of the territory, often abused by people who damage the image with little structures that blend with the surrounding environment. My nature is very similar to its, nothing can ever change, combative until the end ... because we believe in the territory, and its preservation. Beppe Rinaldi and his daughter Marta and Carlotta, addressed respectively to oenology and agriculture, It leads today 6 hectares of vineyards in the tradition and the experience handed down.

After the visit we met in the cellar. With this group of friendly Marche degustammo, We talked about territory, of traditions and a thousand laughs, We immortalammo with a souvenir photograph those moments of true and genuine life simple.

Barolo is a wine that needs to be produced in a particularly evoked the area ... but above, who need interpreters ...

Beppe Rinaldi