Region
Italy › Sicily › Vittoria › IGP Terre Siciliane
Type
red · still
Grapes
Frappato
Alcohol
13%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
1 g/L
Tasting Notes(4)
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It is not permitted to place contrada (district) names on Sicilian wine labels, so Arianna figured a clever way around the rules. Each contrada is represented by a two-letter abbreviation cheekily struck through with a line to emphasize their illicitness. SM stands for Santa Margherita, BB - for Bomboliere, PT - for Pettineo and FL - for Fossa di Lupo.
Fossa di Lupo (FL) is a few kilometers down the SP68 from the winery. It is Arianna's original 6-hectare vineyard. These vines are relatively young at about 15 years, albarello-trained and planted on a thin 40 centimeters of sand over limestone rock. According to Arianna, wines from Fossa di Lupo typically originate as fruity but also austere, presenting great acidity.
Arianna Occhipinti's Frappato FL is a red wine of great substance: juicy, tart and sanguine, an extraordinarily lively drink. Expression of the frappato in the Fossa di Lupo district, the most energetic, between biting acidity and austerity.
- Tripple A
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.
