Timorasso is an indigenous white grape variety with rather ancient origins, as it was present for a long time in the area of Novi Ligure and Tortona. It is described in the treaty Ampelografia della Provincia di Alessandria of 1875 by C. Leardi and P.P. De Maria and mentioned two years later by Di Rovasenda as a "very good white grape". The dual purpose of this variety, both used for making wine and consumed as table grapes, is confirmed by the ampelographic bulletin of 1885 "Culture of table grapes in Italy". Recently rediscovered and re-evaluated after the phylloxera that destroyed many vineyards in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the cultivation of Timorasso interested a fairly large territory in the area around Alessandria, Novi and Tortona, reaching even as far as the province of Pavia. Currently the cultivation of this variety is especially widespread in Tortona and Alessandria.
TIMORASSO GRAPE
Grape colour: whiteProductivity: medium and adjusted.
Leaf: medium-sized, pentagonal or wedge-shaped, three-lobed or five-lobed, with sharp teeth.
Bunch: medium-sized or medium-large, pyramidal, with two or three wings, medium-compact to compact with medium-large berries, spherical or ellipsoidal in the most compact clusters, very pruinose (the bloom is a waxy substance responsible for the white film visible on the grape skin), yellowish green.
Ripening: mid September.
Wines: Colli Tortonesi Timorasso Doc.
