Valle Dell’Acate, Il Frappato Vittoria DOC 2017, Sicily, Italy

Tasting Note: Put this bottle in the refrigerator for 45 minutes before you serve it and watch a rose bud unfold in your glass.

Medium-intensity ruby in color, this wine has a medium-intensity, aromatic nose of red plum, blackberry, raspberry puree, rose petal and white flower.

On the palate the dry, medium-bodied Frappato is medium in tannin with red-and-black fruit flavors.

The wine is medium in acidity with a medium-plus-intensity flavors on a floral finish.

Bottle Note: Each individual wine in Valle Dell’Acate is part of the “7 soils for 7 wines” project. There are seven distinct soils in the company’s territory, and this wine is born in the black soil with white pebbles.