Arianna Occhipinti IGT Frappato 20 Years Celebration Contrade 2023 [NET] CS20230731 This Acacia bianco is blended

This Acacia bianco is blended from Timorasso (the once-lost local white the region is happily rediscovering) and Rossese Bianco (rarer still)

where he makes wines under his own name from some of the oldest vines in South America

with a cellar carved straight into the tuffeau bedrock beneath their feet

and pink floral notes

Now here's the full-circle part: the Coudert family

Arianna Occhipinti IGT Frappato 20 Years Celebration Contrade 2023 [NET] CS20230731 This Acacia bianco is blendedFrappato is where Arianna Occhipinti started, and this bottling marks twenty years of it. She's spent those two decades learning her contrade, the individual districts around Vittoria, and this celebration release draws on that work: 100% Frappato, farmed organically, hand picked, fermented with native yeasts, nothing added to make it louder than it is. Sicilian labeling rules won't let her print the contrada names, which tells you something about how