multi-layered texture with a laser-like joyride of acidity
Fermented with natural yeasts in used Burgundian barrels and undergoing extended sur lattes aging
The 2024 vintage brought real ripeness and mid-palate weight
We only receive tiny quantities of this each year
sprawling ‘parral bajo’ or low pergola-trained vines
2023 Occhipinti, Terre Siciliane IGT, Siccagno Nero d'Avola Country_Barbados multi-layered texture with a laser-likeArianna Occhipinti works in Vittoria, in southeastern Sicily, on red sand over limestone. She came up through her uncle Giusto (COS) and built her own estate from abandoned vines, focusing on native varieties and traditional farming. Siccagno is 100% Nero dAvola from ~35 year old vines, trained in alberello and guyot. Fermented with native yeasts in concrete, with a long ~30 day maceration, then aged ~22 months in large Slavonian botti, bottled