Cascina La Ghersa
TIMIAN
APPELLATION: Timorasso D.O.C. Colli Tortonesi
GRAPES: Timorasso 100%
TYPE: dry, bodied white
AGEING POTENTIAL over 10 years
Timian is a Timorasso produced in the Colli Tortonesi, the unique region in the world where this grape is grown: the whole extension of Timorasso vineyards reaches only 52 hectares in total. Timorasso is a very old piemontese indigenous variety, which was in the 1960/70’s almost loss, replaced by other more productive grapes: unfortunately mass-production was a negative but requested priority at that time. Timorasso is a very pleasant and bodied wine already in the first years after the bottling, but only with the ageing the unique character and the great potential comes out.
PIAGE
APPELLATION: Barbera d’Asti D.O.C.G.
GRAPES: Barbera 100%
TYPE: dry, medium bodied red
AGEING POTENTIAL: 2-3 years
Paige or “Piag” means in piedmontese dialect “toll” (“pedaggio” in italian). In the middle-age, during the feudalism period, the Page is the place where the merchants must pay the “toll” at the Castle Lord, for passing through his lands. Still today this area, where the vines are planted, is called with the same name. ed un terroir inimitabile come quello piemontese.
VIGNASSA
APPELLATION: Barbera d’Asti D.O.C.G Superiore
GRAPES: Barbera 100%
TYPE: dry, high bodied red
AGEING POTENTIAL: over 15 years
Vignassa is the first vineyard that Massimo’s grand-father and great grand-father replanted after the filoxera disease: Osvaldo and Luigi Bologna. After many years the vines, grafted on the american root-stock “St. George” or “Rupestris du Lot”, became more and more deformed and everybody started to call the vineyard as “Vignassa”, which means the “ugly-vines”.
GIORGIA
GRAPES: Moscato “Canelli” 100%
TYPE: sweet white
AGEING POTENTIAL: 2 years
Giorgia is the first Massimo’s child. She was born in May of the 2000: it was definately one of the most joyful and happy time of Massimo’s life. Right in the same year the first Moscato grapes have been harvested in the vineyards purchased at the beginning of the season: from long time Massimo had the wish to produce a Moscato and he was looking around for the right vineyard. Massimo had no doubt to dedicate a sweet wine to his little and sweet girl Giorgia: for sure then the Moscato Giorgia is the wine that Massimo always carries in his hearth.