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Arianna Occhipinti

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A leading figure in Italian natural wine, Arianna Occhipinti is a Sicilian winemaker based in Vittoria, in the province of Ragusa, in south-eastern Sicily. Since 2004, she has been crafting wines of rare authenticity, made from indigenous grape varieties grown using biodynamic methods. Her cuvées, driven by Frappato and Nero d'Avola, offer a precise and luminous expression of the Sicilian terroir, far removed from the powerful and alcoholic wines long associated with the island.

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Occhipinti Il Frappato 2019

€42.00 inc-VAT per bottle

€35.00 ex-VAT

The Story of Arianna Occhipinti

The story of the Arianna Occhipinti estate is one of an early vocation. At sixteen, Arianna accompanied her uncle Giusto Occhipinti, winemaker at the celebrated domaine COS, to the Vinitaly trade fair. This first encounter with the world of wine sealed her destiny. After studying agronomy and oenology in Milan, she returned to her native land, determined to produce great wines in keeping with ancient traditions. In 2004, barely twenty-two years old, she purchased a single hectare of abandoned vines at the foot of the Iblean Mountains, near Vittoria, and produced her first cuvées.

Success was immediate. Her wines — fresh, fluid and elegant — revealed an unseen face of Sicilian viticulture. Over successive vintages, the estate expanded: recovery of old Frappato and Nero d'Avola vines across the contrade of Bombolieri, Bastonaca and Pettineo, the purchase of Azienda Bombolieri in 2012, then the planting of Grillo at Santa Margherita in 2016. Today, the estate covers around thirty hectares of vines and olive trees, equipped with a contemporary gravity-flow cellar, and has established itself as one of the essential references in natural, artisan winemaking.

Terroirs and Vineyards of Arianna Occhipinti

Arianna Occhipinti's terroir unfolds around Vittoria, at the heart of Sicily's only DOCG, Cerasuolo di Vittoria. The vines thrive across several historic contrade with varied soils: marine sands, limestone, red clays and tuff, often resting on beds of limestone rock. Planted between 280 and nearly 500 metres above sea level for the Grillo at Santa Margherita, they benefit from cool nights and wide diurnal temperature ranges — guarantors of freshness and tension in the wines. Not a single drop of irrigation ever reaches these plots, a radical choice under the Sicilian sun.

The vineyard has been farmed biodynamically since 2009, with cover crops on alternating rows and treatments limited to copper and sulphur. Indigenous grape varieties reign supreme: Frappato, floral and delicate, which has become the estate's signature, Nero d'Avola, structured and deep, along with the white varieties Albanello, Zibibbo and Grillo. Each contrada, from the fine sands of Pettineo to the more saline Fossa di Lupo, tells its own geological story in the glass.

Winemaking at Arianna Occhipinti

Winemaking at Arianna Occhipinti favours a natural, non-interventionist approach. Fermentations are carried out with indigenous yeasts, without additions, and the reds undergo long macerations of thirty to fifty days, either in steel tanks or concrete vats. The wines are neither fined nor filtered, and sulphur is used only in very small doses, sometimes at the end of ageing to fix the work accomplished. Each cuvée thus retains a faithful imprint of its original plot.

Ageing varies according to the wine: six months in tank for the SP68, up to several years in large 25-hectolitre Slavonian oak foudres for the single-vineyard cuvées and the Cerasuolo di Vittoria. Bottle ageing completes this patient process. Here, winemaking is never an end in itself but a means of crafting great terroir wines — precise, straight and deeply Sicilian.

The Cuvées of Arianna Occhipinti

SP68 Rosso: the estate's flagship cuvée, named after the provincial road that runs alongside the cellar. This blend of Frappato (around 70%) and Nero d'Avola wins over with its crunchy fruit, freshness and moreish drinkability, while retaining genuine depth. A wine of pleasure — lively and elegant.

SP68 Bianco: the white counterpart, made from Albanello and Zibibbo (Moscato d'Alessandria), sometimes macerated. A sap of yellow fruits, great freshness and an exhilarating balance make it an original and thirst-quenching white that invites you on a journey.

Il Frappato: 100% Frappato from old vines, this floral and elegant wine is the one that most resembles Arianna in her own words — courageous, original and deeply Sicilian. Its finesse sometimes evokes that of the great red wines of Burgundy.

Siccagno: 100% Nero d'Avola grown dry, without irrigation. A pure and sincere expression of Sicily's king grape, this wine combines rigour, harmony, rich substance and high acidity, with a touch of youthful austere character that blossoms with time.

Grotte Alte: the estate's prestige cuvée and its sole DOCG appellation, Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico, a blend of Frappato and Nero d'Avola from the oldest vines. Extended ageing of several years in foudre, maritime sapidity and saline minerality: Arianna describes it as the most ambitious of her wines — elegant and proud.

Vino di Contrada PT (Pettineo): 100% Frappato from the oldest vines in Vittoria, planted on fine orange sand resting on calcareous tuff. Expressive fruit and fine, silky tannins characterise this top-flight single-vineyard wine.

Vino di Contrada BB (Bombolieri): 100% Frappato born on the most limestone-rich plot, with a deep colour. This small parcel lends the wine remarkable finesse and a chiselled structure.

Vino di Contrada FL (Fossa di Lupo): 100% Frappato from Arianna's original vineyard, on brown sand and limestone rock. Arianna notes a beautiful salinity and a distinctive earthy note.

Bianco di Contrada SM (Santa Margherita): a single-vineyard Grillo white, the fruit of several years of research, planted at nearly 500 metres above sea level on marine marl-limestone soils, amid pine trees and olive groves. A fresh, taut and saline wine — a rare expression of altitude in Sicily.

Passo Nero (Passonero): a passito of Nero d'Avola, a sweet and confidential wine made from dried grapes. A rarer cuvée that rounds out the range with a sweet, concentrated expression of Sicily's great grape variety.