Iandolo. Timorasso 'Derthona'

Colli Tortonesi DOC
Grape: Timorasso

2020 is an extraordinary vintage, there is real weight and balance, a settled power with lemon and floral elements woven through its intense, structured beauty.
14%

Francesco Iandolo producer page

Derthona is the Roman name for the area that we call Colli Tortonesi.  For a wine to be called Derthona, it must be Timorasso only, the vines must be in the Colli Tortonesi.  This is an ancient wine that is enjoying a deserved resurgence, great names from Barolo and Barbaresco are now investing here.

This is Francesco’s second Dertona, made from a rented 30 year old, vineyard called Ca’ dell Aglio near Brignano-Frascata.  The soils are thin, rich in chalk, sparsely laid over a bed of limestone.

The grapes were hand-picked at the end of September.  The bunches gently pressed, then macerated* for a few hours to allow the juice naturally to flow out.  The fermentation was with selected yeasts, in a steel temperature-controlled (16ºC) tank.  The wine was then aged on the lees* for 1 year with a weekly bâtonnage*.