Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023 lowintervention the apéritif is aged for

the apéritif is aged for 18 months in 60-gallon French oak casks that previously held white wine

000 bottles annually

fermented with added neutral yeast

first appearing in 1964

oily in the mouth

Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023 lowintervention the apéritif is aged for100% Frappato. From multiple certified organic parcels with vines averaging 40 years old, planted on red sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20 hectoliter concrete tanks and with approximately 30 days of maceration and only gentle extraction. The wine is aged for 14 months in 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak