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Beppe Rinaldi died. Here is his "testament" on Barolo
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It was the free, critical and caustic soul of Barolo. The last anarchist in the cellar, in a land with more and more investors and less and less pure and artisanal winemakers. Beppe Rinaldi, for all "Citrico", died at the age of 70, on Sunday 2 September. The news was given by the Intravino and Cronache di gusto websites.
He was sick for a long time. Leave behind excellent wines and many thoughts. On the Langhe, on the Barolo, above all. In reality every time he discussed the way he understood his work, and how he saw it changing around him, he spoke more generally of mankind, of strength and weakness, power and submission, honesty and cunning. His public tastings were shows of civil oratory in which the wine seemed at most a co-star, never a center of exclusive interest. His utterances left their mark. The last one had entrusted it to the "Corriere della Sera", last January. So powerful that, eight months later, he continues to discuss: on the day of his death, a wine site, Winesurf, proposes on reflection starting from Rinaldi's letter. Which we reproduce below, as his last written document. Almost a will.
