Arianna Occhipinti Il Frappato Terre Siciliane IGT 2022 MERCUREY Merry Edwards began her career

Merry Edwards began her career at Mount Eden Vineyards in the Santa Cruz Mountains in 1974

the Barbera “Pierin“ blends fruit from two neighboring vineyards and bears the name of the family associate who supplied much of the old vines fruit for this wine

like Maestros did for hundreds of years

subtle texture

Cold winter and spring frosts

Arianna Occhipinti Il Frappato Terre Siciliane IGT 2022 MERCUREY Merry Edwards began her career100% Frappato. From multiple certified organic parcels with vines averaging 40 years old, planted on red sandy, limestone soils and trained in alberello and guyot. The bunches are hand harvested and destemmed with the berries left whole. Fermentation is spontaneous with native yeasts in 20 hectoliter concrete tanks and with approximately 30 days of maceration and only gentle extraction. The wine is aged for 14 months in 25 hectoliter Slavonian oak