Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023

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Arianna Occhipinti, Frappato, Terre Siciliane IGP, Sicily, Italy 2023100% Frappato. From multiple certified organic parcels with vines averaging 40 years old, planted on red sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20 hectoliter concrete tanks and with approximately 30 days of maceration and only gentle extraction. The wine is aged for 14 months in 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak

Dominique Lafon started his own label - separate from the family domaine - in 2008 and currently works approximately 4

another two years in large Slavonian oak barrels and

Malolactic fermentation takes place in wood

The last process consists in transforming the distillate in liqueur by adding a simple syrup of water and sugar lowering the ABV to 32%

also named Pietro Bordiga

exhibiting the Durand brothers' wonderful ability to coax both power and elegance in their Cornas

Forge Cellars is still within a tight microclimate where there is harmony of flavors

over marly soils

The vines were planted between 1937 and 1942

100% Prié Blanc

The name has its origins in a rose garden that Fabio’s father

just the essence of the appellation