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Arianna Occhipinti
Il Frappato
2018
4.0
2290 UAHQPR 0.68Region
Italy › Sicily › IGP Terre Siciliane
Type
red · still
Grapes
Frappato
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Tasting Notes
4.0
Somehow Il Frappato '18 managed to hide in the Siccagno shadow. Shy and restrained, it wafts with notes of strawberry, red fruit jam, dust, blood and grounded pepper. Delicious, fresh with a long and flavourful aftertaste. A bit too tannic - you crave food with this wine.
Not sure if it's a bottle variation or just an unlucky vintage. After tasting ~10 years old Il Frappato I have no doubt it can evolve, but this bottle only proves it. And IMO it should stay in the cellar even more.
· @101 Bar
4.0Bottle variation. Restrained nose with pomegranate, red forest berries, red flowers and blood. Fresh, delicate and sophisticated. Still has potential.
· @Wix Kyiv Office
4.2Subjectivity alert. Demanding and complex (in a slightly bad way) Frappato. Delicate and sophisticated bouquet: blood, cherry, pomegranate and merigold. Light, subtle and multilayered. Juicy and quaffable, but still very green. I would love to hide it for 5 years and taste it again then. Though I am already in love.
4.5
Bloody elegant and complex. Unexpectedly pure aroma of sour cherry, pomegranate, blood, earth and violets. There is some strain in the palate, it is dense with high acidity and medium tannins. Flavourful with very long aftertaste. Great and delicate Frappato. It's pure pleasure to drink this wine. I want to taste it again in a year or two. It must gorgeous.
About
Il Frappato is one of the first wines Arianna started to make from older vineyards. 40 years on average, they grow on medium-density soils composed of red sands and chalk from sub-Apennine limestone rocks. Destemming, maceration on the skins and spontaneous fermentation in 85 hl concrete vats for 25 days with daily pumping over and punching down. Racking and ageing in the same containers for 6 months and in Austrian oak barrels for 12 months.
