Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT The bubbles compliment instead of

The bubbles compliment instead of distract and add a lot of fun to an already delicious base wine

and a soft clean finish with none of the ethanol burn that sends people reaching for the mixer

in the vineyard and the cellar

made exclusively in the finest years

Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT The bubbles compliment instead ofArianna Occhipinti spent years looking for the right white vineyard, and in 2016 she found it: a site at nearly 500 meters in the hills above Chiaramonte Gulfi, ringed by pines, oaks and centuries old olive trees. The grape is Grillo, the contrada is Santa Margherita, and the soils are white limestone marl and sand laid down by an ancient sea. She gives it a day on the skins, ferments spontaneously in concrete and large Austrian oak casks, then ages