2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean dark honey

dark honey

just as critics see it as part of their "kit" to properly evaluate a wine

Average Age of Vines: 30-40 years

Limited Addition

mostly south facing

2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean dark honey100% Frappato. Filippo always starts his wines with a pied de cuve, an early picked spontaneous ferment used to seed a larger fermentation to allow for greater surety without inoculating yeast or bacteria. He de stems the hand harvested Frappato into plastic tini for natural fermentation. At the end of fermentation (sometimes before if tannins are too intense) he uses an old fashioned manual basket press for softly pressing the must back to avoid