It was during my early wine studies that I discovered a wine region around the town of Tortona in Piedmont, northwest Italy, and a white grape variety growing there that I hadn’t heard of at this point: Timorasso. Digging through a few reference books, I discovered that it was once a noble variety produced in significant volumes in the area, but that after the impact of phylloxera, it was replaced with vines that are more productive.
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