Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT fresh rain and baked apples

fresh rain and baked apples

and structure than a basic Cotes du Rhone

with new oak capped at 15%

showing a variety of dried fruits

made exclusively in the finest years

Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT fresh rain and baked applesArianna Occhipinti spent years looking for the right white vineyard, and in 2016 she found it: a site at nearly 500 meters in the hills above Chiaramonte Gulfi, ringed by pines, oaks and centuries old olive trees. The grape is Grillo, the contrada is Santa Margherita, and the soils are white limestone marl and sand laid down by an ancient sea. She gives it a day on the skins, ferments spontaneously in concrete and large Austrian oak casks, then ages