White
Origo
By Vigneti Repetto, Colli Tortonesi, Piemonte, Italy
Timorasso from the 1992 vines, named from the Latin for origin, aged in steel and bottle for over three years.
Tasting notes
Clear and intense, with savoury notes; a white built for ageing.
Pairs well with
Medium-aged cheeses, white meats, soups and fried fish and shellfish.
Technical details
- Style
- White
- Denomination
- Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso
- Grape
- Timorasso 100%
- Production area
- Sarezzano, 320 m above sea level
- Soil
- Calcareous tending to sandy
- Exposure
- South-West
- Harvest
- By hand, first ten days of September
- Vineyard planting
- Guyot, 4,400 vines per hectare, planted 1992
- Vinification
- Fermentation in temperature-controlled stainless steel, malolactic done in steel; 12 to 15 months in steel, then 24 to 30 months in bottle before release.
- Serving temperature
- 12 to 16 C
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