Giuseppe Rinaldi

The one and only time I met Bepe was in 2014 when he was releasing the Tre Tine and Brunate Baroli from the 2010 vintage. He didn’t speak much English and my Italian is less than perfect so we spoke in French.

My fondest memory (and I can’t believe I’ve lost the photo) was when he stood next to me with a gun and said “let’s go to Brussels and shoot all those bureaucrats”. He was joking of course but was also evidently upset at the change of law which didn’t allow him to keep multiple vineyard names on his labels, Brunate Le Coste and Cannubi San Lorenzo.