Ortrugo was confined to the status of blending grape at least until the mid-seventies, when a family from Piacenza, with a history dating back to the sixteenth century , selected the old vines to produce a pure Ortrugo . The birth of two new clones also dates back to those years, thanks to the collaboration with the University of Piacenza , which were then replanted, starting from the eighties, a bit throughout the territory: a small success, for a native white grape variety , always present in the territory, which has now become the most cultivated, ahead of any type of international variety. The wine has a light straw color tending towards greenish and has a dry or sweetish flavor with a bitterish aftertaste. It is generally, and traditionally, produced in the sparkling or spumante typologies , but lately, to meet the tastes of a wider public, also still versions of Ortrugo .