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Arianna Occhipinti
Pettineo PT
2017
4.3
Region
Italy › Sicily › IGP Terre Siciliane
Type
red · still
Grapes
Frappato
Alcohol
12.5%
Volume
750 mL
Sugar
1 g/L
Tasting Notes(3)
4.3
More than two years passed since the last time I tasted PT '17. And I remember it as the most fruit-forward from the three contrada. This time it reminded me of some mix of Burgundy and Otago.
Anyways. What a lovely charming and flowery bouquet of red fruits dominating black fruits, jam, mushrooms, green herbs and wet earth. It's a delicate, multilayered and juicy wine with a long and flavourful aftertaste. Beautiful evolution in the glass.
About
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.
Pettineo (PT) is a few kilometers from Bombolieri and Fossa di Lupo. This 0.9-hectare plot features the oldest Frappato vines (60+ years) in all of Vittoria. They grow on 70 cm of fine orange sand over tufa (a porous limestone) and are a mix of albarello and guyot training. This site is the first of the three to be harvested. According to Arianna, The wines of the Pettineo are usually fruit-driven with a more silky tannin yet possessing quite lively acidity.
Arianna Occhipinti's Frappato PT is a red wine of great substance: a red wine of great substance: juicy, sour and sanguine, a drink of extraordinary vivacity. Expression of the frappato in the Pettineo district, the finest, between exhilarating fruit and great elegance.
--- 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.
