altissima luce col grande splendore La Colombera da Pier Carlo Semino Derthona Colli Tortonesi 2023

altissima luce col grande splendore La Colombera da Pier Carlo Semino Derthona Colli Tortonesi 2023The Montino comes from only one vineyard at an altitude of 250 meters on light and dark clayey grounds, even more optimizing the visual sensory qualities, the bouquet and taste of Timorasso Derthona itself. Elisa Semino owns and runs La Colombera together with her father and brother. Their engagement and dedication to the territory and vineyards, the production chain with due regard to the territory and an accurate work in the wine cellar have led La

The Montino comes from only one vineyard at an altitude of 250 meters on light and dark clayey grounds, even more optimizing the visual sensory qualities, the bouquet and taste of Timorasso Derthona itself.

Elisa Semino owns and runs La Colombera together with her father and brother. Their engagement and dedication to the territory and vineyards, the production chain with due regard to the territory and an accurate work in the wine cellar have led La Colombera to be one of the most preferred wineries offering the Timorasso wine, the Colli Tortonesi’s legend.

Timorasso is a local white grapes vine, cultivated in the Tortonian territory since the Middle Ages. Already mentioned in the first agrarian encyclopedia of the XIV century, this wine confirms its tendencies and, over the centuries, becomes the most important Piedmontese white vine. After World War II its production is gradually abandoned, as other more vigorous and resistant grapes are preferred.

In the ’90s Piercarlo and Elisa, together with some young winemakers of the Colli Tortonesi, are among the first 5 wineries to believe in the rediscovery of Timorasso. In their 20 hectares of La Colombera, they locate the grounds destined to exalt the characteristics of this vine : an alternation of clayey sandstone and marn layers, limestone and tuff spots, the right altitude to give the wine a marked minerality and a defined quality, which improve in ageing.