Lamoresca Nerocapitano Frappato 2024

‘Nerocapitano’ is what the locals here call Frappato, with fruit for this bottling hailing from a twenty-five-year old-parcel planted over clay and limestone. On the vinification front, Fillipo is very much driven by maintaining the delicacy and lift of this local specialty; the wine spends just a brief week on skins before being transferred to concrete vats for 8 months of settling. Vibrant and wildly Mediterranean in its nose, this is the kind of wine people refer to when speaking of something transportational; you can sense the unmistakable “Sicilian-ness” of the wine in the scorched, dusty clay, sun kissed red fruits, heady wildflowers, curing meat, and ocean breeze. This year’s is an absolutely killer rendition, with cherry skins, freeze-dried strawberries, lavender, and a shake of black pepper rounding out the intense aromatics; on the palate, bright acid on the back palate leads to a crisp, dry finish, highlighting the structure and finesse that you find in most other Frappatos