2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Kir-Yianni 40% Refosco

40% Refosco

alluring perfume

destemmed and left on the skins in stainless steel tanks

The shallow soils are mainly composed of sandy “gore” from decomposed-pink-granite

2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Kir-Yianni 40% Refosco100% 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