Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] extra-brut-selection and ripe dark plums with

and ripe dark plums with a palate balanced between grippy tannins and fresh acidity

Fermented with native yeasts and vinified in neutral oak

with a notable rye character

Medium to full-bodied layers of fine tannins create crunchiness and open chewiness

Musar ages its reds for years before release

Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] extra-brut-selection and ripe dark plums withArianna 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