Francesco Rinaldi & Figli

Few names carry the weight of Barolo’s history like Francesco Rinaldi & Figli. Founded in 1870, when Giovanni Battista Rinaldi inherited a farmhouse and vines on the storied Cannubi parcel, the estate has remained in family hands for six generations and stands today among the last great traditionalist houses of the Langhe, alongside names like Bartolo Mascarello and its cousin estate, Giuseppe Rinaldi. Now guided by sisters Paola and Piera Rinaldi, the winery farms some ten hectares across the communes of Barolo, La Morra, and Castiglione Falletto — including enviable holdings in two of the region’s most celebrated crus, Cannubi and Brunate. In the cellar, nothing bends to fashion: long macerations, native yeasts, and patient aging in large Slavonian oak botti, never barriques. The results are Baroli of classic proportion — perfumed, structured, and profoundly age-worthy — wines that taste not of an era, but of a place.
