A white barbesino or a white Grignolino? Anna Maria Nadia Patrone also speaks comprehensively about the Gragnolato or Gragniolato grape variety¹, however, giving greater relevance to the white variant, very widespread in the Tortona area, going so far as to suppose, even, that it was a precursor of Timorasso: «The Gragnolato or Gragniolato grape variety, now disappeared, is cited, early compared to other grape variety denominations, in 1209 in an act with which the provost of the Church of Tortona leases a piece of land ' ' in the Tortona territory in the locality . White gragnolato wine (in fact it could also be black) is also remembered with appreciation by Pier de' Crescenzi, who judges it one of the best white wines: ' ' and produces a wine ' '. ad laborandum, videlicet ad plantandum vineam de grignolato Vicus Siccus gragnolata ... unum os habet tantum in granum et est lucidissima et longum habet aliquantulum granum valde limpidum et potens et durabilis et nobilis saporis et odoris et hoc apud Terdonam et in illis partibus maxime commendatur Gragnolato could perhaps have belonged to the Timorasso or Morasso family, a particular grape variety of the Tortona and Novi districts, especially in Frascheta, that is, in that triangle of territory between Alessandria, Novi and Tortona, locally called Mandrogno. ¹. In the cellar of Lu in the years 1734–35 it is expressly cited as a white grape variety, while in the first half of the 1800s in the cellars of Casale and Valenza Po, it is specifically indicated that it is Gragnolato from Fubine, in Pierstefano Berta, Giusi Mainardi, cit., p. 187