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Timorasso Colli Tortonesi

Origin

Colli Tortonesi, Piedmont - Northern Italy

Also known as

Morasso, Totorasso, locally Turasso

Timorasso from Colli Tortonesi — rare white variety of Piedmont (Colli Tortonesi, Tortona), saved from extinction by Walter Massa in the 1980s-90s, on the marl and limestone soils with a Piedmontese continental climate — produces broad, complex and long-ageing whites, with exceptional ageing aptitude for a Piedmontese …