Claudio Mariotto ‘Imbevibile’ Colli Tortonesi DOC Timorasso 2018

L'Imbevibile means "The Undrinkable" Timorasso is a thin-skinned, trouble-maker white grape native to the south-eastern corner of Piedmont near Alessandria known as Colli Tortonesi (the hills of Tortona). Its bunches ripen unevenly and are fragile, easily detaching from the vine and can suffer from failures at flowering. It has a dense canopy that needs serious taming and a tendency to over produce, requiring specific growing sites. In other words, growing Timorasso is a lot of work with plenty of risk; no wonder extinction was on the cards by the 1980s.