Description
Located in Sicily ’s south-eastern Val di Noto province, 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).
Tasting Notes
“A reserved wine with an austere bouquet of cinnamon, wild strawberries, peonies and earth. Medium to full-bodied, it displays concentration, lively fruitiness and tension, with firm tannins and a long, invigorating acidity.” [95/100 Points, James Suckling]
