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Why You Should be Drinking Timorasso

Piedmont’s full-bodied white has come into its own.
© Paolo Tenti | Walter Massa in his vineyards

One of the many reasons I love specializing in Italian wine is that I never get bored. With more native grapes used to make wine than any other country in the world, and long traditions of growing only select varieties in certain areas, the combination of unique grapes and specific growing conditions often leads to fascinating wines that can’t be recreated anywhere else in Italy or the rest of the world.

Timorasso, one the most exciting wines coming out of Italy right now, is exactly that combination of native variety and specific growing area.

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Walter Massa Timorasso 1990–2012: The most famous unknown wine

© Paolo Tenti | L-R Pigi, Kerin O’Keefe and Walter Massa

Kerin O’Keefe explores the recovery and rise of Timorasso, the indigenous varietal that has achieved eminence in obscurity thanks to the creative determination and passion of one man.

John Lennon once described his wife Yoko Ono as “the world’s most
famous unknown artist: Everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does.” The same description can easily be applied to Timorasso, one of the most exciting wines coming out of Italy: Everyone in the wine world has heard of it, but no one knows much about it, apart from the fact that it’s a singular white and comes from Piedmont.

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