Il frappato 2021 - Arianna Occhipinti

Il Frapapto - Arianna Occhipinti

Il Frappato by Arianna Occhipinti is an elegant and enveloping Sicilian wine made from 100% Frappato grapes. The grapes that come from old vines grown as saplings on medium-calcareous and sandy soil with organic cultivation. Manaule harvest in the first decade of October. In the cellar the grapes are de-stemmed, crushed and sent for spontaneous fermentation with indigenous yeasts in 85 hl cement vats with a 40-day maceration. Subsequent racking and refining on fine lees in 25 hl French oak barrels for 12 months. Before being put on the market it refines for another 6 months in the bottle. It is bottled without any fining and filtration. The Frappato is ruby ​​red in color with elegant hints of red fruit, floral and spicy notes. In the mouth it is fresh, warm, enveloping, harmonious. It closes with a long fruity return. Frappato is Arianna's dream come true, a wine that embodied the earth and the Sicilian air, the very thoughts of Arianna. A sanguine and elegant wine.nd Sicilian air and Arianna's own thoughts. A bloodthirsty and elegant wine.

Service

Let's taste the mixture 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 emotions.

Pairings

The Frappato is ideal with seasoned and spicy cheeses such as caciocavallo fresh, baked meats, to be tried with the sweet bunny rabbit.

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.