Planeta, DOC Vittoria (Sicily, Italy) Frappato 2013

Planeta has made an utterly charming wine entirely from Frappato, a grape more often blended with Nero d’Avola for Sicily’s DOCG wine, Cerasuolo di Vittoria.   As a stand-alone, Planeta’s Frappato is a light to mid-weight juicy red-fruited wine with an alluring hint of smokiness and a faint — and welcome — bitterness in the finish.  A clean wine, its unique combination of flavors makes it ideally suited for hearty seafood, such as bluefish.  Its lack of aggressive tannins means it takes a chill nicely, adding to its versatility.