Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily
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Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily,
Ready, but will keep,
This wine always displays a playful energy and lightness of touch that slightly defies its origin. The fruit and minerality feel a little more balanced and integrated in the 2014, maybe due to the slow and steady véraison. The resulting perfume on the nose then leads to crunchy red fruit with a hint of spice and florality on the palate.
Drink 2016-2018.
Drink 2016-2018.
Magnum 3 x 150cl 1cs
£300.00
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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).