Italy
Pettineo - 2021 - Arianna Occhipinti
Azienda Occhipinti
A nose with notes of wild berries, completely focused on the fruit. Palate: a rich and elegant juice with silky tannins and beautiful, refined acidity to balance the whole. A magnificent single-vineyard cuvée, and 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 2030
- rock’n’roll
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100% Frappato from the Pettineo plot, where the vines grow (almost) freely and reach impressive heights. 70-year-old vines farmed biodynamically, planted on red sandy soils. Hand-harvested in the last week of September. Vinification: 20 days of maceration in concrete tanks, gentle pressing, then aged for 20 months in 20 hl egg-shaped concrete tanks, followed by bottle aging in the estate’s cellars. Unfined, unfiltered, with just a micro-dose of sulfur.

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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