Derthona Colli Tortonesi Timorasso doc La Colombera 2021

The Derthona La Colombera is a fresh and pleasant white wine, made with 100% Timorasso grapes vinified and aged in steel tanks. At sight it has a beautiful intense golden yellow color. In the first years of life it develops a large and complex bouquet, floral and fruity, with notes of peach, acacia and hawthorn flowers, honey. With ageing, the sweeter notes give way to mineral hints and hydrocarbon notes typical of the vine. It is a wine with great aromatic complexity; in the mouth it is fresh, balanced and pleasantly sapid. The Derthona La Colombera is perfect to drink in combination with seafood first courses, skewered chicken and grilled fish. Elisa Semino, owner of the company called "Queen of Timorasso" recommends forgetting a few bottles in the cellar and tasting them after a few years!

The origins of La Colombera date back to 1938 when the great-grandparents of Elisa Semino, who now is the owner of the company, rented a farmstead in the hills of Vho and began cultivating wheat, chickpeas and lucerne. Only after the war first vineyards were planted for personal use and only since 1970s they begun to carry out the vinification of grapes and bottle their own wine. The arrival in the company of the young Elisa at the end of the 1990s gave the decisive turning point and allowed La Colombera to become one of the best known companies for Timorasso wine and a point of reference in the Colli Tortonesi. Today, La Colombera has 24 hectares of vineyards cultivated with native vines, managed with respect for the ecosystem, using only verdigris and sulfur and applying a policy of maximum sustainability and soil protection. Even in the cellar, wine-making techniques are meticulous and precise, with the goal of enhancing the best qualities of the earth and its grapes. The La Colombera continues to be a small family business, thanks also to the contribution of Lorenzo, Elisa's brother, who manages the agricultural and mechanical sectors.