Monlià Timorasso DOC 2023 - 0,75l

Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi 2023 is a Timorasso from Piedmont with pear and honeysuckle, 13.5% alcohol, plus a firm limestone edge for seafood and tajarin. It has the calm Oddero feel in a grape the house is known far less for than Nebbiolo. The result is golden, dry and quietly serious.

About the Wine
The Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi 2023 comes from the Tortona hills in southeastern Piedmont, the area that has made Timorasso one of Italy’s most talked-about white grapes again. Oddero is a La Morra name first associated with Barolo, so its move into Colli Tortonesi gives this bottle a very specific Piedmont accent. The vineyards sit on clay and limestone soils. That combination is easy to feel in the wine’s dry grip and pear-skinned texture. The 2023 has 13.5% alcohol, which suits Timorasso’s natural breadth. Sustainable certification also matters here, since this grape needs careful picking to keep its ripe fruit and firm line in balance. The wine is aged in stainless steel tanks. Oddero keeps the vinification direct, with no oak note sitting over the grape’s pear, white blossom and honeyed tones. The faint vanilla note feels woven into the fruit, like a soft echo of ripe pear flesh and honeysuckle. Stainless steel gives the Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi 2023 a clean outline and lets the limestone bite stay close to the surface. The finish carries a dry mineral pull that feels more savoury than floral. In the glass it sits golden yellow, with a richer colour than many young Piedmont whites.

Tasting Notes
The colour is golden yellow, deeper than many young Piedmont whites, and it suits the 2023 Oddero Timorasso’s ripe pear profile and gentle honeyed glow. The nose moves from pear flesh to honeysuckle and white blossom, then a small vanilla note appears like the scent of warm pear skin and fresh pastry. On the palate the wine is dry, full enough for its 13.5% alcohol, with a chalky line that recalls the clay limestone soils of Colli Tortonesi and gives the fruit a firm edge. Lively acidity tightens the finish and brings citrus peel, sea salt and almond skin into the final impression. A few minutes in the glass bring out honeyed blossom and a gentle savoury grip, a detail that makes this Timorasso feel distinctly Oddero in its calm shape. Drink 2025-2030.

Food Pairing
The pear and honeysuckle side makes this Oddero Timorasso a fine match for roasted sea bass with fennel, especially if the fish has lemon and good olive oil. With seafood, choose scallops seared in butter or prawns with garlic and parsley, as the wine’s dry mineral line cuts through the sweetness of the shellfish. A regional match is tajarin with butter and sage, where the pasta’s egg richness meets the wine’s golden fruit and firm Colli Tortonesi grip. Vitello tonnato also makes sense, as the tuna sauce and capers bring out the savoury side of Timorasso. For white meat, try roast chicken with herbs or pork loin with a light cream sauce and soft cheese on the side.

Producer
Oddero is one of the old La Morra names, rooted in the hamlet of Santa Maria, and its reputation was built long before Timorasso returned to fashionable wine lists in northern Italy. The cellar is best known for Barolo from named sites such as Brunate and Bussia Vigna Mondoca, so this Colli Tortonesi white arrives from a producer accustomed to patient Piedmont wines. That background shows in the Oddero Timorasso Colli Tortonesi 2023: the wine has the same composed feel as the estate’s Nebbiolo labels, with clear fruit, dry structure and a finish that grows slowly. The estate’s sustainable certification gives useful context here, and this bottle tastes like Timorasso watched closely in the vineyard, with pear ripeness held inside a firm clay limestone frame. Oddero also has a gift for making restraint feel personal, and the small vanilla note in this stainless steel aged white reads like part of the fruit, a quiet echo of pear skin and honeyed blossom. The house label remains plain and old-fashioned in the best sense, and the wine follows that visual promise with pale gold colour, quiet perfume and a finish that tightens slowly.

We deliver within 2 - 6 business days. You can choose whether it should be to a parcel shop or home delivery. Free delivery to both parcel shops and your front door. Our store partners primarily use GLS, DPD, UPS and DHL for deliveries. We cover deliveries to the majority of countries in Europe.