“Cuvée 20° Vendemmia” Frappato Terre Siciliane IGT 2023 (BIO)

Occhipinti | Sicily
Az. Agr. Arianna Occhipinti | Via dei Mille 55 | IT 97019 Vittoria

19213423 · 0,75 l · 78,67 €/l · Price (DE) incl. VAT, excl. Shippingavailable immediately

Twenty harvests. Twenty years in which a revolution grew from a single hectare of abandoned vines at Fossa di Lupo. 2023 marks Arianna Occhipinti's Ventesima Vendemmia – and this anniversary deserves a wine that unites her entire terroir mosaic. Three contrade, three voices: Fossa di Lupo, the place of origin, where brown sand rests on limestone and gives the wine its earthy depth. Bombolieri, on white sand over pure limestone, provides the austere structure and mineral tension. Finally, Pettineo, with its vines over sixty years old in orange-coloured sand over tuff, contributes silky tannins and forward fruit. Spontaneous fermentation in concrete, twenty-five days on the skins, then six months in the same container and one year in Austrian oak. Bottled unfiltered, like all wines from this house.

What flows into the glass is more than wine – it is a chronicle. Ruby red with transparent luminosity. Iris and red rose, raspberry and white mulberry, including black tea and an iodised hint of the nearby sea. On the palate: precise, sanguine, infused with lively acidity. The tannins are fine but firm and carry the final, which smells of myrtle and wild maquis and lingers like a promise. Courageous, headstrong, rebellious – this is how Arianna describes her Frappato wines, and this is also how she describes herself. This cuvée is both a retrospective of two decades and a departure into the next twenty years ... SUPERIORE.DE