2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean just next to Rugiens

just next to Rugiens

Average Age of Vines: 30-40 years

Fermented and kept in barrels on the lees

just as critics see it as part of their "kit" to properly evaluate a wine

or everyday spread

2025 Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Frappato, Sicily, Italy Grosjean just next to Rugiens100% 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