Azienda Agricola Arianna Occhipinti

Goethe said: "Substance is nothing, what counts is the gesture by which they are made." And the first thought that I've learned from wine making it was to accept. Accept the diversity of soils, the slope of the ground, the altitude, and the originality of a vineyard. To accept means to respect...

Arianna Occhipinti

Everything begun nineteen years ago in the ”Fossa di Lupo” area. A magical place where the land in the evening becomes redish and is brushed by the Ibleian winds and leans on one side of a road: the County Road 68. A county road like many others, but with a special past. It was once a stone narrow path; three thousand years ago it connected Gela to Kamarina, it travelled- as it still does - through the Cerasuolo di Vittoria roads and from Caltagirone continued to...

Biodiversity

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow It from our children." I love this phrase by Saint-Exupery. He has always guided me in my work as winemaker. In fact, my starting point is always the idea that the earth is only a gift. I must leave it for those who come after me healthy, nursed, loved...

Detailed study

Sicily is a thousand faces land, but there is a Sicily that I consider mine. It's made of roads, colors and smells that waft in the air. My Sicily is made up by countryside and rock, the one of the Iblei, maybe the least known part of the entire region. I love the spectacular beauty of the cavies that open suddenly in the orography of mountains, canyons, caverns; the fact that there are cemeteries and catacombs hidden among the vegetation...

The wines

Vittoria, wine, vineyard, dry stone walls. This is my land. Early in the morning the sun rises on the Iblei Mountains, while the sky turns red in layers and the warm light spreads amongst the rows of “Fossa di Lupo”, my district. I love the grapes of these places, Frappato and Nero d’ Avola. I feel myself in their expression, in being harmonic and unequal. I love the strength of the know-how to bring...