COS, Nero di Lupo

Earthy, leathery fruit flavours balanced by flinty notes. It is ruby red in colour with fine aromas of cherry jam, dried violet and clove.

Grapes: Nero d'Avola

Place: Sicily, Italy

ABV: 10.5%

Colour: Red

Vintage: 2019

PRODUCER PROFILE

COS was started by Giusto Occhipinti with two school friends in the early 80s.

On a tiny budget, the three friends vinified the grapes from their parents' vineyards. After experimenting with toasty oak and big flavours from over-ripe Nero d'Avola, they quickly realised that it wasn't the direction they wanted to go in. They then took a step back and started favouring concrete and amphorae. Their winemaking too changed, from modernism to non-interventionist wine making. Now they are well established as one of Sicily's leading exponents of biodynamic production and make wines of freshness and aromatic expression. COS does not use selected yeasts and has never used chemicals in the vineyards.