2013 Siccagno, Nero d'Avola, Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily, Italy
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Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily
Located in Sicily ’s south-eastern Val di Noto province, the landscape of which is dominated by the red loam-over-white limestone soils and dry stone walls of the Iblei Mountain plateau, and by such beautiful towns such as Siracusa, Vittoria and Modica – this is a world away from Etna, which looms on the horizon.
The Occhipinti family is synonymous with the Frappato grape that underpins Siciliy’s only DOCG: Cerasuolo di Vittoria. Arianna kicked off in 2004, making wines in a family farmhouse, before transferring, in 2013, to a purpose-built winery, where her 22 hectares of Frappato and Nero d’Avola, along with one-and-a-half hectares of intense Albanello and Zibibbo white grapes, are vinified using cement and Stockinger barrels (Slavonian, German, Austrian oak).
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From Arianna’s 10th vintage and the first produced in her new cellar in Bombolieri, this Nero d’Avola exudes balance. The fruit character on the nose and palate is rich, poised and scented, partly due to the later harvest. Red plum and sour cherry is layered with crisp acidity and smooth tannins.
Drink 2016-2020.
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