Mandirola 1913 "Derthona" Colli Tortonesi Timorasso, Piedmont, Italy 2023

FROM THE PIEDMONT GUY:

THE WINE: 100% Timorasso. Timorasso is a precious wine suitable to the whole meal. It excels as an accompaniment to tasty and cured cheese. It is an elegant support to dishes of white meat, patès and vegetarian servings. Timorasso enhances also the taste of the famous Piemontese ‘white truffle’.

THE PRODUCER: Enrico Mandirola cites 1913 as the founding year of his family’s storied wine estate. In this year, Enrico’s great-grandfather purchased a small farm in the village of Casasco in the Colli Tortonesi, a hilly zone tucked in the southeastern corner of Piedmont and hemmed by the Apennine Mountains to the south. The original property was largely planted to grapes, grain, and corn. Over the course of the following century, the estate now known as Mandirola 1913 invested heavily in their vineyards, ultimately arriving at 11 hectares under vine today. Enrico’s production is centered on Timorasso, an exceptionally dynamic white wine grape renowned for its textural delight and uncommon ageworthiness. This estate holds the distinction of owning the oldest known plantings of Timorasso in the Colli Tortonesi within an historic vineyard named Tantèi, a site from which the earliest massale selections were taken to rescue Timorasso from extinction in the late 1980s. Not to be overlooked in this story are Enrico Mandirola’s beautiful single-varietal bottlings of Barbera and Croatina, the typical red grape varieties of his region.