The 2024 vintage brought real ripeness and mid-palate weight
Luis Seabra’s "Xisto Ilimitado" project serves as a technical interrogation of the Douro’s non-fortified potential
What makes this moment so exciting is the value
multi-layered texture with a laser-like joyride of acidity
This wine hails from a vineyard that’s surrounded by forest
2023 Occhipinti, Terre Siciliane IGT, Siccagno Nero d'Avola Country_Barbados The 2024 vintage brought realArianna Occhipinti works in Vittoria, in southeastern Sicily, on red sand over limestone. She came up through her uncle Giusto (COS) and built her own estate from abandoned vines, focusing on native varieties and traditional farming. Siccagno is 100% Nero dAvola from ~35 year old vines, trained in alberello and guyot. Fermented with native yeasts in concrete, with a long ~30 day maceration, then aged ~22 months in large Slavonian botti, bottled