Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily
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Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily,
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The Occhipinti family is synonymous with the Frappato grape that underpins Sicily’s only DOCG: Cerasuolo di Vittoria. Historically the family made their wines in the family farmhouse before transferring in 2013 to a purpose-built winery, where the quality of wines has continued to improve. Arianna now owns 22 hectares of organic Frappato and Nero d’Avola, along with 1.5 hectares of intense Albanello and Zibibbo white grapes.
SP68 is the name of a road which leads to the winery. Vibrant and plucky, this native Sicilian red is full of character; crunchy red berries, leather, cherry wood, wild herbs and flowers, minerality and Sicilian spices. This wine is unfiltered and organic. Drink now to 2022.
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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).