Italy
Fossa di Lupo - 2021 - Arianna Occhipinti
Azienda Occhipinti
A nose with notes of blackberry, blackcurrant sorbet, and a hint of laurel... Palate: a wine of lovely substance, this is a rich juice with great acidity, just touch austere in its youth. A few years of patience will be rewarded many times over. An unparalleled expression of the Sicilian terroir.
- 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
100% Frappato from a single plot, Fossa di Lupo, 20-year-old vines farmed biodynamically and planted at 214 meters altitude, facing the Hyblaean Mountains in the south of the island. The soils are red and brown sands with limestone pebbles. Arianna does meticulous work on her plots here. Manual harvest in early October. Natural vinification: 20 days of maceration in concrete vats, pressing, aging in Slavonian oak barrels of several wines, with a micro dose of sulfur 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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