SP68 Rosso 2023 - Arianna Occhipinti

Terre Siciliane SP68 Red - Arianna Occhipinti

SP68 is a red wine that comes from a blend of Frappato and Nero d’Avola. The grapes come from old 14-year-old vines located on soils of calacarea origin at 280 meters above sea level, so the grapes are able to draw all the nourishment to arrive at the right concentration of sugar around the end of September when the harvest is carried out. In the cellar fermentation is spontaneous without the use of selected yeasts in 85 hl cement vats with 15-day maceration. The wine is drawn off and refined on the fine lees in the same containers for 6 months. Before marketing it rests 2 months in the bottle. It does not undergo any clarification or filtration. Terre Siciliane SP68 is dark ruby ​​red. The nose expresses sensations of red fruit, Mediterranean herbs and spices. On the palate it is fresh, delicate, with good acidity and a long fruity return. The SP68 is a road but above all a fresh, young wine that carries within itself the scents of Sicily.

Service

Let's taste the Terre Siciliane SP68 Red at a temperature around 16/18 ° C. Wine to drink immediately but leave to rest in the cellar for a few years can give great satisfaction.

Pairings

Ideal wine to be consumed with baked or grilled meat, to be tried with rolls of stuffed ham and cheese.

Cellar: Arianna Occhipinti

The cellar of Arianna Occhipinti is located in Vittoria, in the province of Ragusa, leaning on one side of the now famous P68 road which in ancient times was of stone and connected Gela to Kamarina. Today, however, it runs through the streets of Cerasuolo di Vittoria and from Caltagirone continues for Catania. Arianna, a class in 1982, with a degree in Agriculture and Enology at Milan, decides to return to Sicily and to create a winegrower from scratch. Purchase its first hectare of land near its palm grove in Fossa di Lupo, a magical place where the land, which in the evening is colored red and is combed by the wind coming from the Iblei, and planted its first vineyard. Since then 10 years have passed and the company of Arianna has been enlarged by buying land in the districts Bombolieri, Bastonaca and Pettineo, and cultivating only native vines of the area: Frappato, Nero d'Avola, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, Albanello and Zibibbo. The average age of vineyards is 20 years, but some reach half a century. Arianna's production philosophy is absolutely natural: forbidden use of chemicals in vineyard but only for the use of copper and zinc, spontaneous fermentations with only native yeasts made in concrete tanks, large barrel aging no filtration before 'bottling. Arianna follows the whole winemaking process and her wines are genuine, natural. Fresh, complex, certainly among the most respected of the terroir.