2024 Ezio Poggio 'Lunatico' Bianco Frizzante

Region: Colli Tortonesi < Piemonte < Italy

Grape: Timorasso

Vineyard/Cellar Stats: Organic farming (certified from the 2025 harvest); Limestone and clay soils; ater spending the winter fermenting and maturing, the wine is bottled for secondary fermentation in the spring during the new moon; undisgorged, no added SO2; 12.5% ABV

• Gently fizzy Timorasso
• From high elevation, wild vineyards on the southern edge of Piemonte
• High acidity accentuates Timorasso’s green herbal side (thyme, green tea, tomato leaf)
• Crunchy nectarine, lime, honey, sea salt and green apples

Ezio Poggio is a true visionary or, as Italians would say, a personaggio. He is devoted to the revival of Timorasso, one of Italy’s most dynamic wine grapes. Ezio planted his first vines in 2004, reestablishing a long-lost growing zone now known as Terre di Libarna along the north face of the Apennine Mountains, which separate Piedmont from Liguria. In 2011, Ezio successfully petitioned for official recognition of a new subzone in the southern half of the Tortona Hills called Terre di Libarna. His daring decision to grow Timorasso at an elevation of nearly 2,000 feet is without peer, and his unique vision for the grape has yielded white wines of ineffable beauty and poise. At merely 15 hectares, this small but mighty subzone of the Colli Tortonesi DOC encompasses the highest elevation growing region for Timorasso. Ezio Poggio is the sole producer in Terre di Libarna.