Italy
Fossa di Lupo - 2019 - 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
- 2023 to 2028
- rock’n’roll
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A 100% Frappato cuvée, from a single parcel known as Fossa di Lupo, farmed organically and planted facing the Hyblean Mountains in the south of the island, on red and brown sandy soils with some limestone pebbles. Arianna works her parcel here with tremendous precision. The winemaker's vinification here is also as precise as ever, without any additives, maturation in Slavonian oak barrels that have seen several wines, and just a microdose of sulphur at bottling. 2671 bottles produced.

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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