Forest wines® ‘SP68’ Terre Siciliane IGT Bianco, Arianna Occhipinti – 9409402831138

ORGANIC / NATURAL / VEGAN /  LOW SULPHITE

This is an aromatic and elegant wine. With plenty of Mediterranean herbs, white flowers, pink grapefruit and white peach aromas. It’s a deeply aromatic wine that is surprisingly light on the palate. Expect fresh and almost herbaceous note and a dry finish.

Arianna Occhipinti is the niece of COS winemaker Guisto Occhipinti, so has winemaking in her blood. This wine is named after the main road that passes near to Arianna’s home town of Vittoria, it 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. All the vineyards are worked using biodynamic principals and she takes a non-interventionalist approach in the cellar, allowing the wine to find its own space. Only natural yeasts are used, no temperature control, no fining or filtration and minimal SO2 at bottling. 

Origin: Sicily, Italy
Vintage: 2023
Grape varieties: Moscato di Alessandria, Albarello
Food pairings: Seafood, risotto and charcuterie, light dishes, salas, aperitif
Bottle size: 75cl
ABV: 12.5%