The 2022 Vietti Colli Tortonesi Timorasso Derthona is a beautifully structured and expressive white wine from Piedmont, showcasing the revival of the once nearly forgotten Timorasso grape. With ripe apricot, poached apple, floral aromas, and a signature saline minerality, it's textured yet fresh, thanks to its low pH and balanced fermentation in ceramic, wood, and steel. This vintage is approachable sooner than usual, yet still built to age gracefully.

The Wine Advocate | RP 93
Published: Jan 30, 2025
Drink: 2026-2038

Timorasso is an extremely sensitive variety, so it's easy to understand why it was nearly abandoned. It is rich in proteins and tends to go into reduction. Luckily, it has been enthusiastically revived in recent years, and we have a new school of age-worthy white wines from Piedmont to enjoy. The Vietti 2022 Colli Tortonesi Timorasso Derthona works nicely because it has the sweetness of the vintage that opens it up to a medium-term drinking window, sparing you from having to wait years. Its flavors are generous and rich, with apricot and poached apple, and you get a salty mineral note as well. The wine is quite fresh with 3.05 to 3.10 pH that makes your mouth salivate. Winemaking takes it through stainless steel, wood and cement. Cement has a minimal 2% oxygen exchange compared to oak, which has a 10% exchange, and certain types of amphorae can go up to 100% air transpiration because of their porous nature. Production is 18,000 bottles. In addition to this wine, I tasted the upcoming Colli Tortonesi Timorasso Derthona Boscogrosso, which represents a special selection of fruit. The Boscogrosso will be released in late spring 2025, so I will include my review of that wine in my next Piedmont report.

Decanter | D 93
Published: Jan 18, 2025
Drink: 2025-2030

From fruit grown in Monleale – the top Timorasso village – a slow fermentation in ceramic vessels, oak casks and stainless steel tanks yields a very attractive, creamy and textured wine with honeysuckle and light peach aromas. There's fine balance between ripe fruit concentration and lively acidity, giving it potential to age in the bottle.
Closure: Cork
Alcohol: 13.50%
Body: Medium
Oak: Lightly Oaked
Grapes: 100% Timorasso

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Name: Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso

Variety: Timorasso 100%

The grapes come from several vineyards located in the municipality of Monleale, with south-east and south-west exposure. The soil is calcareous-clayey.

Vinification: fermentation, of about 4 weeks, is carried out partly in ceramic, partly in wooden vats and partly in steel. Malolactic fermentation is not carried out. The wine ages for a total of 10 months in the same containers in which fermentation takes place and remains in contact with the fine lees until the following summer.

Description: in the glass it appears clear, intense yellow in color with greenish reflections; on the nose fruity hints reminiscent of pear, peach and floral notes such as acacia flowers and hawthorn; a characteristic note of honey can also be perceived. After 2-3 years the mineral notes are more noticeable, in some cases accentuated by the typical hint of hydrocarbon, which enriches the wine. In the mouth it is dry, warm and soft, very balanced; It has no sharp edges and in the finish you can perceive a good acidity that gives length, persistence and flavour to the palate.