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From the Garibaldi:
Longest stage
of the Giro at 254 km. Mostly flat. From Busseto to Nizza Monferrato the
race route crosses the Po Valley, before reaching the short climbs of
the Langhe hills and entering the Province of Cuneo. One GPM at Tre Cuni
after a long and ‘pedalable’ climb. Short ramps towards the end of the
stage through Narzole as far as Cherasco. As in almost all passages
through towns and villages, there are numerous hazards, including
roundabouts, underpasses and traffic islands.
Final abrupt ramp from the Ponte bridge over the Tanaro river as far
as Narzole with the final curve at 6 km from the stage finish in town. A
short curve on an almost straight road with a 2.600 m finishing
straight. Road width 7 m, surfaced with asphalt.
Longest day of the race makes me think breakaway, yet the relatively flat profile suggests the the sprinters may want another chance. I was uncertain enough that my Stage Predictor picks included Mark Cavendish, Taylor Phinney and Cadel Evans.
A tweet from yesterday's winner and a link to show exactly how hard it really was raining yesterday:
MarkCavendish
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A tweet from yesterday's winner and a link to show exactly how hard it really was raining yesterday:
MarkCavendish
The big news of the morning is the departure of two of the pre-race favorites: Sir Bradley Wiggins and Ryder Hesjedal. Both are reportedly ill and had lost considerable time in the last few stages. Neither at this point was going to win the race, but it is always sad to see great riders forced to abandon.
ryder_hesjedal
1:07am
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Pre-video, there was an early break made up of Danilo Hondo (RadioShack Leopard), Giairo Ermeti (Androni Giocattoli), Rafael Andriato (Vini Fantini-Selle Italia), Pablo Lastras Garcia (Movistar Team), Tobias Ludvigsson (Team Argos-Shimano), Nicola Boem (Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox) and Lars Ytting Bak (Lotto Belisol).
ryder_hesjedal
1:07am
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Pre-video, there was an early break made up of Danilo Hondo (RadioShack Leopard), Giairo Ermeti (Androni Giocattoli), Rafael Andriato (Vini Fantini-Selle Italia), Pablo Lastras Garcia (Movistar Team), Tobias Ludvigsson (Team Argos-Shimano), Nicola Boem (Bardiani Valvole-CSF Inox) and Lars Ytting Bak (Lotto Belisol).
daniellloyd1
Sure enough, it looks like the team may be working again today for Mark Cavendish.
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6:52am
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TweetDeck 52.2km to go, gap 1'25" #Giro
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TweetDeck 52.2km to go, gap 1'25" #Giro
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| 1 | Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Astana Pro Team | ||
| 2 | Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 0:00:41 | |
| 3 | Rigoberto Uran Uran (Col) Sky Procycling | 0:02:04 | |
| 4 | Robert Gesink (Ned) Blanco Pro Cycling Team | 0:02:12 | |
| 5 | Michele Scarponi (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 0:02:13 | |
| 6 | Mauro Santambrogio (Ita) Vini Fantini-Selle Italia | 0:02:55 | |
| 7 | Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida | 0:03:35 | |
| 8 | Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:04:05 | |
| 9 | Domenico Pozzovivo (Ita) Ag2R La Mondiale | 0:04:17 | |
| 10 | Rafal Majka (Pol) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 0:04:21 |
From 67Wine:
It’s hard not to get worked up about Walter Massa’s wines: he had a vision for a variety nobody wanted, worked in obscurity for years, rescued the grape, and doesn't talk about himself but about the territory of Colli Tortonesi. When you get lost going there, start asking people 100 km out and they know and love him, from the gas station guy to the producer next to him. A prophet, a farmer, a philosopher and someone that you’d want to share a glass of wine with at your table.
From Decanter:
Timorasso is a grape that ought to have a wider audience. It has everything going for it: opulent aromas, full body and great acidity. It can do oaked and unoaked styles with equal aplomb and it is capable of developing impressive complexity with age. Two things possibly holding it back are scarcity and unfamiliarity. On the subject of the latter, its cause is not helped by a degree of confusion over the name. Timorasso may be bottled under the Colli Tortonesi DOC, with or without an indication of the grape. Derthona, the name of a proposed new DOC for Timorasso which hopefully will come into force next year, is also used by some producers, either alongside the existing DOC or in one case for a table wine. However it is labelled, Timorasso, which was virtually wiped out by phylloxera at the start of the last century and only retrieved from obscurity in the past 15 years, is by far the most characterful of Piedmont’s native white varieties, knocking spots off the lean and one dimensional Cortese and the soft and simple Arneis.
I say: Nutty, with spiced honey. Creamy and white flowers.
Another recommendation from Melissa Sutherland. Her comment: "The minerality reminds me of Riesling but hugely muscular.
Timorasso would have been the grape of Gavi if it weren’t so difficult to grow.
Cortese (of Gavi) is much easier."
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