| Producer | La Colombera |
| Country | Italy |
| Region | Piedmont |
| Varietal | Timorasso |
| Vintage | 2022 |
| Sku | 8033247301335 |
| Size | 750ml |
One of the first to lean in to Timorasso after it was revived by Walter Massa in the 1980s, Elisa Semino has been making "Derthona" (the dialect name for Tortona) for 20+ years.
One can cosider Timorasso as a kind of a cross between Burgundy (think Chablis) and a dry Riesling. The grape has a natural high in acidity with flavors of green fruit, white flowers and lots of minerality. This wineries Timorasso is a great example, honeysuckle, jasmine, orange peel, green peach, lime and stone aromas and flavors. It's almost chewy in texture, with a vivid, wildly complex, finish and excellent long finish.
Derthona is the old name for the city of Tortona. The white wine it produces is structured and elegant, capable of aging for a surprisingly long time in bottle. On the nose the young wine shows notes of white peach, honey, acacia, hawthorn blossom, and chamomile, developing smoky and mineral notes with age. On the palate, there are are savory notes that remind one of our clay soils. The fresh acidity of the wine allows it to improve in the bottle for many years.
Practising Organic:
Nowadays La Colombera is run in the respect to the surrounding ecosystem. Only copper fungicide and sulphur are used in the vineyards. No herbicide : manual work in all activities is favoured in the vineyards, from pruning to harvest. The maximum sustainability and soil preservation policy is applied. In the cellar, only sulphur is added before bottling.
Timorasso is a local white grapes vine, cultivated in the Tortonian territory since the Middle Ages. Already mentioned in the first agrarian encyclopedia of the XIV century, this wine confirms its tendencies and, over the centuries, becomes the most important Piedmontese white vine. After World War II its production is gradually abandoned, as other more vigorous and resistant grapes are preferred.
In the ’90s Piercarlo and Elisa, together with some young winemakers of the Colli Tortonesi, are among the first 5 wineries to believe in the rediscovery of Timorasso. In their 20 hectares of La Colombera, they locate the grounds destined to exalt the characteristics of this vine : an alternation of clayey sandstone and marn layers, limestone and tuff spots, the right altitude to give the wine a marked minerality and a defined quality, which improve in ageing.
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