Sicily's answer to Cru Beaujolais — floral, light, serve chilled.
$62.00
750ml11.5% alc.Vintage may change. If it does, we’ll notify you of any price adjustment before dispatch.
About
Light-bodied Sicilian red from 100% Frappato, fermented on skins with wild yeast and aged in concrete, so there is no oak in the way. Red cherry, raspberry and plum sit over garden herbs, damp earth and a pinch of pepper, with bright acid and soft, pliable tannins. Organically grown on red limestone soils at 230 metres above Vittoria. Give it a slight chill and it drinks like a summer red that still has something to say.
COS works organically in Vittoria, in south-eastern Sicily, where Frappato grows on red limestone at 230 metres. The fruit ferments on skins with wild yeast and matures in concrete. That choice leaves the wine free of oak flavour and keeps its light, lifted shape clear. The estate began biodynamic practice in 2000.
Red cherry, raspberry and plum meet garden herbs, earth and a pinch of pepper. Bright acidity and soft tannin make this an unusually flexible red. Give it a slight chill before pouring. It works with grilled vegetables, tomato pasta or tuna steaks, and it is especially good when the weather calls for red wine without the weight.
Producer note
COS was founded in 1980 by three friends — Giambattista Cilia, Giusto Occhipinti and Cirino Strano — whose surname initials spell the name. They have never used synthetic treatments in the vineyard, began biodynamic practice in 2000 and were certified organic in 2007. Occhipinti is widely credited with reviving the Vittoria appellation.
Structure
Grape
Picked on Stef's structure profile.
