Manenti Vittoria Frappato 2024 extra-brut-selection herbaceous nose of candied citrus

herbaceous nose of candied citrus and stone fruit

co-fermentation of both varieties: 50% whole cluster

galangal and vanilla

California Trousseau on its own is rare enough

Eighteen-day native yeast fermentation with 33% whole-cluster aging and 33% new French barrique creates a wine of medium body with chalky texture

Manenti Vittoria Frappato 2024 extra-brut-selection herbaceous nose of candied citrusFrappato is the grape that ruins people for heavy red wine. Grown in Vittoria's iron red sand over limestone, it comes out pale, floral and nearly weightless, closer in spirit to Cru Beaujolais or a cool climate Pinot than to anything most people expect from Sicily. Guglielmo and Marita Manenti farm four organic hectares of traditional bush vines here and make this with no extraction and no oak, which is the entire point: nothing gets in the way of