2023 Il Frappato, Arianna Occhipinti, Sicily, Italy

The varietal Frappato is made from 35-year-old vines, planted at 220 metres above sea level, it is fermented and matured for 6 months in concrete tanks. Frappato is a great grape variety, packed with red summer fruit but with great depth and a wonderful mouth-feel and structure.

Arianna says: “Frappato was born from my childhood dream of making a wine that tastes like the land I work, the air I breathe, and my own thoughts. It is tart, sanguine and elegant. It is Vittoria and the Iblei mountains. It is the wine that most resembles me, courageous, original and rebellious. It has peasant origins, which is why it loves its roots and the past it carries within.”