Arianna Occhipinti Grotte Alte 2016 750ml – Organic

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Grotte Alte – Cerasuolo di Vittoria – A natural organic wine from young and famous Sicilian producer Arianna Occhipinti. She is very focused on the natural balance when producing her wines based on her philosophy that from good grapes come good wines. This is a beautiful dark red wine with cherry and herb notes on the nose and a round and a refined velvety taste.

Organic.
Nero d’Avola 50%, Frappato 50%.
ABV 13%

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Description

Ariana Occhipinti started her own winery only 15 years ago when she acquired a vineyard and a winery in the contrada Fossa di Lupo outside Vittoria in Southeastern Sicily. From the start she wanted to produce natural organic wines based on a firm belief in the land she was cultivating and the natural processes she was using. This involved accepting the diversity of soils, the slopes of the terrain, the altitude, and the originality of the vineyards. For her accepting means respecting. To respect the earth and its balance. Respect the vineyard with skillful gestures of a sensitive agriculture. To respect the fermentation through the use of local yeasts. Respect the wine as if it was a person. Respecting the nature in every gesture: from cultivation and pruning to the processing of the grapes. Everything must be in balance, which for her can be summarized as: from good grapes come good wines. Hence, all her wines are made from organically grown grapes, without the use of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides, chemical or synthetic fertilizers. The Nero d’Avola and Frappato vines for the Grotte Alte red wine are around 40 years old, and grow in limestone vineyards located at an altitude of 280 m. The grapes were manually harvested and carefully sorted at full maturity. The fermentation and maceration on the skins took place in stainless steel tanks using indigenous yeasts for 30 days. The wine was matured for 32 months in large Slavonian oak barrels and 4 months in bottles, unfiltered.

Additional information

Weight 3 lbs
Winemaking

Two parcels on white limestone soils go into Siccagno (which is both site name and dialect for "good wine"), one being bush-trained, the other in double Guyot. The vines average 30 years old, are organically and biodynamically farmed and harvested by hand, generally in the first 10 days of October. The fruit is destemmed but the berries left whole; it is fermented with native yeasts and 20-25 days of maceration.The wine is aged for 2 years in 3000-liter Stockinger (Austrian oak) casks before being bottled unfiltered.

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  • Store Name: Gramercy Wine
  • Seller: gramercywine
  • Address: 104 East 23rd Street
    New York, NY 10010
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