2019 Reis Timorasso

While Piedmont’s red varieties have enjoyed most of the limelight, regional winemakers like Simone Revello have doubled their efforts to diversify their offering with white counterparts the likes of Arneis, Nascetta, Cortese, and even Chardonnay and Riesling. But it’s Timorasso that’s made the consensus on the future of Piedmontese white wine.

Rèis is the brainchild of six native Piemontese friends (they’ve known each other since high school) with a love for making wines from their mother land. As the youngest generation in long lineages of grape growers and winemakers, the “Rèis boys” wanted to nod to their region’s history. And so, they purchase grapes from two sisters who tend small vineyards in Berzano organically and the wine is vinified in a similar fashion at Tenuta Il Nespolo. Simone first told us about his new project Rèis in late 2019. At the time, he and his friends had just pressed off the first juice from their first harvest and were unsure if it would be bottled and commercially sold at all, so small was the scale of it. After a two-year mandatory bottle ageing period, we receive a small allocation of this rarity.