Arianna Occhipinti ARIANNA OCCHIPINTI Terre Siciliane Rosso “SP68” 2022

Description

Arianna Occhipinti Terre Siciliane Rosso “SP68” is made from 70% Frappato and 30% Nero d’Avola. The two vines are native to Sicily and grow on soils of red sand and limestone rock, with vines of an average age of 15 years in four different sites. The vines are grown organically and harvested by hand. The fruit is mainly destemmed and fermented with indigenous yeasts in concrete tanks and with a two-week maceration on the skins. The wine is aged in cement tanks for 8 months and bottled unfiltered. The wine takes its name “SP68” from the road near Arianna’s home vineyard in Vittoria. 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.