Italy
Bombolieri - 2021 - Arianna Occhipinti
Azienda Occhipinti
Complex and evolving over the glasses with notes of tart cherry, cranberry, coffee, leather, pink berries, thyme, hint of mint... Try to wait a little while before tasting this gem!
- Size
- 75 cl
- Original features
- Low-sulfite
- Appellation
- Terre Siciliane IGP
- Degree of alcohol
- 12.5 %
- To drink from
- 2025 to 2029
- rock’n’roll
A 100% Frappato cuvée, from a single parcel known as Bombolieri, farmed biodynamically and planted facing the Serra San Bartolo, in the southeast of the island, on 15 cm of light coloured sand over a solid layer of limestone. Arianna works her parcel here with tremendous precision. Manual harvest on the first 10 days of October. The winemaker’s vinification here is also as precise as ever: 20 days of maceration, pressing, maturation in Slavonian oak barrels that have seen several wines, and just a microdose of sulphur at bottling.
Arianna Occhipinti
Arianna Occhipinti organically cultivates 10 ha of vines and 15 ha of olive trees in the south of Sicily, near Vittoria. A dynamic young woman, cheerful and passionate, she’s a pure child of Sicily. Her organic vineyard is planted with Albanello and Zibibbo for the whites, Nero d’Avola and Frappato for the reds. These local grape varieties are planted on parcels oriented to the north and at...
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