Arianna’s home town of Vittoria lies in the far south of Sicily just to the west of Ragusa. It is here that she has been making wine for the past ten years under the tutelage of her uncle, Giusto Occhipinti who owns and runs the famous COS estate.
Santa Margherita: The vineyard, at 490 m asl, is divided into 4 parcels of calcareous-sandy marl, alternating with sand and calcarenites. The Costa Sud and Costa Nord parcels, trained as saplings, have soils rich in chalk and fossils and yield salinity and complexity. The Terrazza and Trefile parcels, trained as saplings on espaliers, have stony clay-limestone soils and yield pulp and acidity.
Producer Arianna Occhipinti
Origin Vittoria, Sicily, Italy
Grapes 100% Grillo
Vintage 2023
Alcohol 12.5% ABV
Style Medium body natural white
Bottle size 750ml
Winemaking Manual harvested, mainly destemmed. 15 days maceration on the skins and fermented with indigenous yeast in cement and wooden tanks. Aged for 10 months a part in concrete and a part in 25HL Austrian wooden barrels of oval shape, 4 months in bottle. Unfiltred, unfined
Notes Biodynamic, Natural, Organic
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Packaging
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