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Giuseppe Rinaldi, Barolo Brunate la Coste, 1999 Levet and Gerard 2021 Cote Roties one of Champagne's greatest chalkThe cult traditionalist blend before the law killed it. From 2010 onward, EU rules forced producers to bottle single crus separately, but in 1999 Beppe Rinaldi was still combining roughly 60% Brunate and 40% Le Coste into one Barolo, a blend Beppe himself introduced in 1993. This is the classical Rinaldi expression that built the cult: two parcels speaking together, neither louder than the other. 1999 was a great classical vintage, and at 26 years on,