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Right up your
strada since 1929

In Costa Vescovato, an hour east of Langhe, sits Cascina San Leto — founded by Carlo and Clementina in 1929 and family-run ever since. Eight hectares of vines, set in a natural amphitheatre, looking out over the Tortona hills.
Today it’s run by Daniele, his wife Loredana and son Mattia. Daniele was one of the original “Timorasso Boys” who helped re-establish the grape locally, and has farmed his grandparents’ land organically and biodynamically for 20 years — every choice made with respect for nature, biodiversity and the ecosystem.
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the Timorasso Boys
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Daniele Ricci — Cascina San Leto

Behind the mountain,
the tailor's field

Timorasso is a red wine in a white dress — structured, savoury, almost tannic in the grip it leaves on the palate. Most white grapes fade politely after a year or two; this one is just getting started. Give it five, ten, twenty years and it turns waxy, honeyed, faintly petrol — closer to an aged Riesling than anything else grown nearby.

Timorasso nearly disappeared from these hills altogether. Daniele was one of the original Timorasso Boys, the small handful of growers who spent decades bringing the native white back from near-extinction — farming the same hillside organically and biodynamically ever since.

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Colli Tortonesi

The Timorasso Boys

Native to these hills and once nearly extinct — Daniele was among the handful of growers who spent decades bringing it back.

Cascina San Leto

The Hillside

The same amphitheatre of hills behind the house, farmed organically and biodynamically for two decades.

The Selection

Dolcetto, Barbera, Nebbiolo and Timorasso from one family's hillside in the Colli Tortonesi.
Orange
Daniele Ricci – Il Giallo del Costa
Timorasso
Daniele Ricci — Il Giallo del Costa
The maximum expression of Timorasso. Honey, beeswax, dried orange peel.
Perfect with — Vitello Tonnato
White
Daniele Ricci – Derthona
Timorasso
Daniele Ricci — Derthona
Golden floral aromas of pear with notes of spice. Dry, rich and saline.
Perfect with — Tajarin and Sausage
Red
Daniele Ricci – San Martino
Nebbiolo
Daniele Ricci — San Martino
Mysteriously dark. Sour cherry and red fruits, leather and tobacco, herbaceous with sweet spice.
Perfect with — Risotto Porcini and Chestnuts

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