Product Description

From the Importer:
With wine making in his family blood, Vito Lauria decided to attend the University of Udine in Friuli where he obtained a degree in Enology in 2003. After stepping off the campus he worked at a number of wineries in northern Italy for a few years before returning to Sicily in 2005. Vito came home to open the old family winery in Alcamo, 30 miles west of Palermo.
Upon his return in 2005 to Alcamo, Vito became the Enologist for organic farming for a local winery. His family winery started by Vito’s grandfather, also named Vito, began production in 1958 only to close due to economic hardship in 1993. Vito was determined to revitalize the family winery. So, between 2005 and 2010, while working for others, he spent part of his time doing just that. While the winery site and building are still the original, the tools for making wine are the most modern of our day. In 2010, Vito released his first vintage of wines under the winery name Vino Lauria.
It could be called the “foreigner” among the Lauria wines, even though by a bit: the only one that doesn’t “grow” around Alcamo, but nourishes of Sicilian sandy lands, not very distant from the beaches of Scoglitti, in the area of Ragusa. It’s from these “lean” lands which it owes its attractively weak color and its lightness. Of rare grapes that at one time were cultivated only to eat, known in the past as the wine of the royals, “speaks” of cherry, aromatic herbs and white pepper.

Bright red. Slightly earthy nuances keep the pungent, bright floral aromas that Frappato is famous for slightly under wraps. Then livelier on the palate, with clean-red cherry and berry flavors that are nicely complicated by minerals and aromatic herbs. Finishes long and smooth, with lingering red fruit elements and a hint of coriander. Slightly bigger-bodied and more textured than many other Frappatos, drink this lovely wine slightly chilled.