Azienda Agricola COS
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Azienda Agricola COS, 2020Seeking to respect the land with humility, hard work, and patience, three friends founded Azienda Agricola COS in 1980 and were the youngest wine producers in Italy: Giambattista Cilia, Cirino Strano and Giusto Occhipinti. They received an old family winery from Giambattista Cilia's father Giuseppe Cilia and the nearby vineyard of bush trained vines in the famed town of Bastonaca. In 2005, they made the first wine that bore the Denominazione d'Origine Controllata e Garantita (D.O.C.G.) designation, the only one in Sicily. Today, COS is associated not only with the success of Cerasuolo di Vittoria but also with rigor and quality. The region was reborn, and the area around Vittoria is thriving with its extraordinary wines110
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2016 COS “Cerasuolo di Vittoria” Sicily, Italy, $68 Tcherhis is a favorite biodynamic Sicilian winery, started in 1980 by three super-smart university pals (Cilia, Occhipinti, and Strano: ergo, COS) in their parents’ vineyards, They researched ancient winemaking methods, and have rehabilitated old Carthaginian varietals (like Frappato, 40% of this wine, along with Nero d’Avola) to make the purest wine possible, Hand-harvested, foot-pressed, this wine is all about velocity and speed, it’s both keen and generous, showing fresh-cut fennel, tart cranberry, and golden raisin.
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