Five generations of Massas have laboured tirelessly to keep the Timorasso grape from extinction on the steep hills just east of the city of Tortona. It is an ancient, endangered variety, which is very difficult to grow, with tiny yields and immense concentration. “Walter Massa is pretty much the savior of the variety that was once the prime grape in Gavi, before the less interesting but less troublesome Cortese took over.” Jancis Robinson MW