Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023 glutenfree Contra Costa

Contra Costa

Chava and his sons

This multi-layered Morillon shows a lot of fruit flavors in the nose

with very light tannin and a dry finish

pair it with Mediterranean-inspired snacks like tinned fish

Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023 glutenfree Contra Costa100% Frappato. From multiple certified organic parcels with vines averaging 40 years old, planted on red sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20 hectoliter concrete tanks and with approximately 30 days of maceration and only gentle extraction. The wine is aged for 14 months in 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak