2022 Il Frappato di Vittoria
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Arianna Occhipinti's 2022 Il Frappato is punchy and bright in a manner only this spirited young winemaker can manage. Frappato is a grape that wants and needs to show its primary freshness, and it does just that in the deft hands of Arianna Occhipinti. The wine stays on the skins for 20 days and then goes into cement, followed by 14 months in both French and Austrian oak. Fruit for this wine comes from a 10-hectare site at 220 meters in elevation with sandy limestone.
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Monica Larner, Wine Advocate
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The 2022 Il Frappato is an understated beauty. Blackberries and currants swirl up from the glass, accentuated by hints of incense and rubbed sage. This splashes across the palate, soft-textured and pliant, with crisp red and black fruits that flow across a core of tactile minerals and savory spice. A bump of zesty acidity maintains amazing freshness even as a tart wild berry tinge pinches at the cheeks through the long and tension-filled finale. I’d rather enjoy the 2022 alongside a meal than on its own, but I have a feeling that was Arianna Occhipinti’s intention.
The 2022 Frappato is perfumed and floral, with violet, sage and lavender tones complementing blackberry and blueberry scents. Lifted and finessed, it is built on tension, with tart wild berry fruits and a crunch of minerality toward the close. Blue and purple inner florals resonate as this tapers off long and crisp with a saline edginess.