#4 on PRIMA's Top 25 Wines of 2025!

2025 was the year of Timorasso at PRIMA! When Luca Currado-Vietti and Elena Penna sold their beloved Vietti, it sent shockwaves through the wine world. What would happen to Vietti, everyone wondered, now that they were gone?

We shouldn’t have worried. Vietti is just fine. But, more importantly for me, as they’ve been good friends of ours for 35 years, I wondered what would become of the Penna-Currados themselves!? There was no way, I figured, Luca was going to content himself for long with his small consulting business in Tuscany, nor would Elena be happy with only her artisan gin and vermouth operation to occupy her. And with their two bright, accomplished kids Michele and Giulia now interested in joining the family wine business, I knew it was only a matter of time before they returned to their Langhe roots. And it was in surprisingly short order—once Luca’s post-sale commitment to Vietti was completed—that the foundations for their next adventure were laid. From there it was Luca’s experience farming and winemaking, Elena’s extensive skills on the commercial side and all the kids could offer in terms of passion and excitement that combined to create the family’s new labor of love, Cascina Penna-Currado, the debut wines of which we happily introduced to California last year.

Elena Penna’s own pet project, the Penna-Currado Timorasso, features a grape Elena fell in love while at Vietti and has made sure to champion as a big part of her family’s new project too. The proud, sole white wine of the CPC project, this is a gorgeous, surprisingly rich, mineral-driven and saline expression of Timorasso made using a brief maceration of the skins during crushing and submerged cap fermentation (an unusual practice for Timorasso that Elena became keen on after visiting a grower in Liguria). Aged in both large acacia barrels and ceramic Clayver amphora, the wine takes on a richness and complexity without any oxidation.

Fans of top white Burgundies and Vouvray Sec will love this!