Cascina Penna Currado Derthona Timorasso 2024

Elena has always been fascinated by the Colli Tortonesi area and the potential and versatility of the Timorasso grape, and her passion led them to lease a vineyard in the south-eastern spur of the province of Alessandria.  Here, soils are ripe with Sant’Agata fossil marls containing twenty million year-old compacted calcareous clay, responsible for the beloved savoriness and salty minerality that Timorasso manifests in these parts.  The proud, sole white wine of the Penna-Currado project, this is a made using a brief maceration of the skins during crushing and submerged cap fermentation, followed by ageing in clay Clayver anfora; as such, the wine takes on a richness and complexity but without oxidation. Their 2024 is gorgeous: creamy, ample and beautifully layered in the glass, it offers up hints of apricot, chamomile and white flowers, with light tropical accents that develop over time. Beautifully done.