Frappato
Vittoria DOC
Frappato 100%
Frappato is a grape I love for its aroma and for its ability to be elegant without raising its voice. In this bottle you find it on its own, just as it grows on the sands of Vittoria. A fresh, fragrant red that keeps drawing you back to the glass.
Technical sheet
- Grapes
- Frappato 100%
- Yield per hectare
- 7 tonnes
- Winemaking
- 8–15 days of maceration in steel
- Colour
- Ruby red
- Nose
- Clean, intense and fruity: cherry, blackberry and mulberry, with a pronounced floral note
- Palate
- Full, savoury, refined and elegant
- Alcohol
- 13%
- Notes
- Organic · spontaneous fermentation · unfiltered
Food pairing
Grilled white meat; a young Ragusano DOP cheese; fish soups and fried oily fish such as anchovies and sardines.
Awards
- 2024
- Slow Wine 2027: Top wine/Best Buy92 James Suckling
- 2023
- 92 Vinous93 Kerin O’Keefe 2026
- 2022
- 92 James Suckling90 Vinous92 Kerin O’Keefe 2025
Earlier vintages
- 2021
- 91 James Suckling90 Vinous
- 2020
- 92 James Suckling90 Vinous