SP68 Bianco 2023 - Arianna Occhipinti

SP68 Bianco - Arianna Occhipinti

SP68 White is a fresh and fruity wine that best expresses the personality of Sicily. Nace from a blend of Albanello and Zibibbo. The grapes come from organically grown vineyards, located on limestone soils at 280 m.s.l.m. The harvest takes place in the last week of September. In the cellar the fermentation is spontaneous in 85 hl cement vats with maceration on the skins for 15 days with daily pumping over and punching down. Racking and pressing of the marc with vertical press and refinement on the fine lees in cement vats for 6 months and then 1 month in the bottle. No clarification and filtration. The SP68 Bianco is straw-yellow in color. On the nose are obvious hints of exotic fruit, honey and Mediterranean scrub. The mouth is fresh, mineral with a slightly almond-shaped closure. SP 68 more than a road is a journey, that of the ancient peasants who already carried in their amphora the fruit of their work and that of the current agriculturi directed to their vineyards.urrent farmers to their vineyards.

Service

We taste it  at a temperature around 8/10°C. Wine to drink immediately but leave to rest in the cellar for a few years can give great emotions.

Pairings

Ideal wine as an aperitif with friends, hors d'oeuvres with fresh cheeses and vegetables, to try with moscardini on sauce.

Winery: 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 antiquity was 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.