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Arianna Occhipinti
Il Frappato
2013
4.5
Region
Italy › Sicily › Vittoria › IGP Terre Siciliane
Type
red · still
Grapes
Frappato
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
0.2 g/L
Tasting Notes(2)
4.5
Honestly, I see no point in describing this wine. Aye, I am overly subjective here, but this is my personal drug. Still alive, still rocks. The cherry is already part of the confiture. The red flowers blossom. And I walk in the forest after the rain picking up mushrooms. Dog rose? Yes! Tar? Yes! Unfortunately, this is my last bottle of this vintage.
About
Il Frappato stems from a dream which I had when I was a girl to make a wine that knows the land that I work, the air I breath, and my own thoughts. It is bitter, bloody and elegant. That is Vittoria and the Iblei Mountains. It is the wine that most resembles me, brave, original and rebellious. But not only. It has peasant origins, for this it loves its roots and the past that it brings in; but, at the same time, it is able to fight to improve itself. It knows refinement without forgetting itself.
Il Frappato is 100% Frappato from 40-years old vines growing on red sands and chalk soils. The grapes are destemmed and macerated for 30 days and then aged for 14 months in large 25hl Slavonian oak barrels.
