Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Sicily 2024 objects

Lamoresca 'Nerocapitano' Sicily 2024 objectsNerocapitano (the old name for Frappato) from Filippo Rizzo's 11 hectare farm. Lamoresca is the only winery for roughly 25 square miles; Filippo and his one farm employee, Gaetano, work the land continually by hand. This is old Sicily, hearkening to when all folks there made their own wines and olive oil; Rizzo reinvigorates a village tradition that in many ways is being lost. He makes natural wines that aren't fake or goofy or glou glou: they are

as well as the finesse of the winemaker's touch

and beats the pants off of other more experimental co-fermentations in terms of complexity and depth

Many of these recipes reflect Paul Bertolli's love of northern Italian food

In conversation with Michael Twitty:

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sourced only from New York state

and being doing fermentations with many of the fruits available on the farm

In other words

author of the drunken botanist and wicked plants

fining and no addition of sulfur

proximity to the water

and orange peel