A blend of 70% Frappato/30% Nero d'Avola. Occhipinti SP68 Rosso has hints of flowers, leather, smoke, spice and herbs with wafts of liquorice, earth and mandarin rind. A blend of Nero dAvola and Frappato that is slightly purple/red in the glass and shows further notes of wild cherries, plum and mulberry with just a touch of raspberry lift.
Owner, winemaker, and viticulturist Arianna Occhipinti founded the estate in 2004, bottled her first commercial vintage in 2006 and today works exclusively with estate fruit. She began her career at 16 in her uncle Giusto Occhipinti’s cellar (of COS fame). Arianna loved the business enough to go to enology school. However, once there, she was disillusioned by the type of winemaking they were teaching, so she returned to the methods she observed while working with her uncle when it came time to establish her winery.