2020 Occhipinti Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico Grotte Alte
50% Nero D'Avola 50% Frappato di Vittoria from 40 year old vines, aged 48 months in 50HL French oak barrels, 4 months in bottle Biodynamic, organic certification, no chemical intervention Grotte Alte is a place: the limestone ridges on which Vittoria stands. But it is also a wine, my Cerasuolo di Vittoria, from Frappato and Nero d'Avola grapes. It is a Mediterranean wine that retains the flavor of the sea and all the air and temperature variations of the Iblei mountains. It is harmonious and has experienced a long aging. Perhaps it is the most ambitious of my wines. About the producer Everything begun fifteen years ago in the ”Fossa di Lupo” area. A place where the land in the evening becomes redish and is brushed by the Ibleian winds and leans on one side of a road: the County Road 68. A county road like many others, but with a special past. It was once a stone narrow path; three thousand years ago it connected Gela to Kamarina, it travelled- as it still d