Lamoresca "Nerocapitano" Frappato Sicily 2025

Press 4 Red • October/November 2026 Direct Press Selection

Lamoresca's wines are some of the most soulful, pleasurable wines in Sicily or anywhere, for that matter. The Rizzos — Filippo, a Sicilian, and Nancy, a Belgian — ran a restaurant in Belgium in the early 2000s where they were early natural wine advocates. This led them back to Filippo's native land, where they started a winery and farm in southeast Sicily between Gela and Etna at 450 masl. Their first few vintages were made at the cellar of a friend of theirs from Belgium named...wait for it...Frank Cornelissen. The Lamoresca wines are different from Frank's, however, a bit smoother, more ethereal, maybe less intense but hardly any less moving.

"Nerocapitano" is 100% Frappato, locally known as "Capitano Nero," hence the name. It's picked the first week of October and pressed in an old fashioned basket press and aged in concrete. It's juicy and floral with boysenberry notes, herbal umami, and fine, delicate tannins. It's a lithe, complex wine that is simultaneously chillable and chuggable. Jonathan Kemp