Arianna Occhipinti ARIANNA OCCHIPINTI Frappato 2021

Description

Arianna Occhipinti Frappato comes from 2 different parcels of property with vines of an average age of about 40 years. One plot is made up of older vines grown as saplings on a sandier version of the estate’s clayey-limestone soils; the other is younger, trained according to the Guyot system on soils with more limestone. The vines are cultivated with organic and biodynamic methods and harvested by hand. The fruit is destemmed but the grapes are left whole for pressing; the fermentation is with indigenous yeasts in a cement tank with maceration for 30 days. The wine is first aged for 8 months in 25 hectolitre Slavonian oak barrels and for another 8 months in cement tanks, before being bottled unfiltered. Arianna Occhipinti Frappato is a joyful and fragrant wine, elegant, fresh and mineral. Long and clean finish with a nice savory complexity. Arianna Occhipinti is a young winemaker who launched her first vintage in 2004 at the age of 21. A cult figure of the biodynamic movement, Arianna tends 14 hectares of olive groves and 5 hectares of vineyards in the land around Vittoria, in southeastern Sicily. Occhipinti built her reputation on Frappato, a secondary grape in Sicily usually used to spice up the heavy Nero D’Avola. Arianna, with tenacity and stubbornness, has shown that Frappato can give great results even in purity.