2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean Bosco and Curva's clay-rich soils

Bosco and Curva's clay-rich soils contribute to the wine's structure and complexity

mostly south facing

dark honey

just next to Rugiens

Fermented and kept in barrels on the lees

2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean Bosco and Curva's clay-rich soils100% 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