Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT Erin Mitchell and Randy Czech

Erin Mitchell and Randy Czech farm organically and work with as little intervention as possible

in the vineyard and the cellar

and structure than a basic Cotes du Rhone

The bubbles compliment instead of distract and add a lot of fun to an already delicious base wine

with new oak capped at 15%

Arianna Occhipinti Sicilia Bianco Vino di Contrada SM 2024 [NET] PET-NAT Erin Mitchell and Randy CzechArianna 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