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Occhipinti, Siccagno, Nero d'Avola

Sicily, Italy 2012 (750mL)
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Occhipinti, Siccagno, Nero d'Avola


Arianna Occhipinti (Ari to her friends) lives in the tiny rural town of Vittoria, Sicily. She became fascinated with wine in her teens, enrolled early at the University of Milan's esteemed school of viticulture and enology, and released her first vintage by age 22. With her obvious talent, youthful exuberance, and the impressive diversity of wines she produces, Ari has almost single handedly shifted the focus away from big, corporate Sicilian houses producing modern international wines from French grape varieties. In doing so, she has helped pivot enthusiasm toward aziendas (farms) much like her own: Small, 100% organic, polycultural, and devoted exclusively to indigenous Sicilian grape varieties like Nero d'Avola and Frappato.     

This specific wine - Siccagno, one of the rarest and most sought after she bottles - is single varietal Nero d'Avola, pressed in a old wooden press from the 1800's, and vinified in large neutral oak barrels. No fancy cellar tricks and very little sulfur, but there is plenty of soul in this bottle. Whereas many wines produced in this deliberately hands off style can be sloppy and/or chemically unstable, Arianna's Nero d'Avola represents the ideal outcome.  It's alive, explosively aromatic, and almost three dimensional in its freshness and texture. This wine erupts out of the bottle with aromas of dark fruit, blue flowers and the herbs that grow wild on Ari's property. Siccagno is only made available one time each year at the beginning of the Summer, so if you're looking to broaden your vinous horizons with something inspiring and outside of the norm, this is a rare and exciting opportunity.
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Italy

Northwestern Italy

Piedmont

Italy’s Piedmont region is really a wine “nation”unto itself, producing world-class renditions of every type of wine imaginable: red, white, sparkling, sweet...you name it! However, many wine lovers fixate on the region’s most famous appellations—Barolo and Barbaresco—and the inimitable native red that powers these wines:Nebbiolo.

Tuscany

Chianti

The area known as “Chianti” covers a major chunk of Central Tuscany, from Pisa to Florence to Siena to Arezzo—and beyond. Any wine with “Chianti” in its name is going to contain somewhere between 70% to 100% Sangiovese, and there are eight geographically specific sub-regions under the broader Chianti umbrella.

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