2024 Poggio di Bortolone Frappato Vittoria, Sicily, Italy Christoph Hoch Lands late July

Lands late July

The juice was chilled and oxidised in tank for 24 hours and then racked to a two 500L barrels and a 220L Wine Globe (a barrel sized glass demijohn) for fermentation by indigenous yeasts without SO2

it has  the presence and reactivity of tannins from partial fermentation

and apricot

first planted to Cabernet Franc in 1949

2024 Poggio di Bortolone Frappato Vittoria, Sicily, Italy Christoph Hoch Lands late JulyFrom southwest facing slopes at roughly 260 meters on Vittorias iconic sabbie rosseiron rich red sands over porous marine limestonethis Frappato captures the delicacy and tension of the zone with crystalline precision. The 10 year old vines are densely planted (~6,000 ha), farmed organically, and hand harvested in late September at modest yields (~6 t ha). In the cellar, Pierluigi Cosenza works with spontaneous fermentations at 1820 C over 18 days,