The taste of Africa jumps out at you not just from the various architectural ruins but also more importantly from the vegetation: olive, carob and almond trees and vines abound. The climate as well recalls Africa with its red, ochre and yellow tones.
Three friends founded Azienda Agricola COS, in 1980: Giambattista Cilia, Cirino Strano and Giusto Occhipinti. The acronym of their last names is where the name for the winery – COS – comes from.
OUR WINES TELL OUR STORY AND THE STORY OF OUR ANCESTRAL LANDS.
For over 3000 years, the Earth has had grape vines. This is an extraordinary gift that we have been given and that we have received with humility and work with in our own way. We are always looking to work as artists in terms of our concept of a wine. This has enabled us to undertake a very difficult path but one that we are fully satisfied with and that we intend to pursue wholeheartedly. For the past 30 years, we have been creating our history and putting it into every glass of our wine, our story, the story of our ancestral lands.
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James Suckling 95 "Full body, layered and very powerful with a wealth of fruit and polished tannins. An intense wine. This is like no other Cerasuolo.
Wine Advocate 91+ (Certified Organic; 60% Nero d’Avola/40% Frappato)“The COS 2016 Pithos Rosso is bright and luminous with a very buoyant and direct delivery of aromas.
Wine Advocate 93 "Packaged in a short, squat bottle, the 2016 Pithos Bianco flaunts its golden-copper color and its proudly oxidative style. The wine offers aromas
Vinous Media 92 "Bright orange-tinged yellow. Clean and fresh with a very recognizable varietal character of orange blossom, lime, grapefruit and raisins on the nose and
"The 2016 Rami (Inzolia 50% and Grecanico 50%) is a gorgeous, beguiling, utterly exotic wine. Tobacco, dried herbs, orange peel, sage, rosemary and smoke are
"COS is a benchmark producer in the Vittoria appellation of Sicily, and certainly one of the most important, influential producers in all of Sicily, if
Wine Spectator 91 "A bracing white, showing rapier acidity and light tannins, with lovely aromas and flavors of tea rose, dried marjoram, singed orange peel, myrrh,
Wine Spectator 91 "This medium-bodied red shows a mix of ripe black cherry and strawberry fruit, with hints of wild herb and loamy earth. Nero
Wine Advocate 95 "The 2012 Pithos Bianco is a pure expression of Grecanico macerated on its skins for seven months in clay amphorae that are buried
Wine Spectator 90 "An elegant red, open-knit and creamy in texture, with soft tannins and juicy acidity structuring the flavors of red licorice, black cherry puree,
This intense, complex white wine takes it's name "Pithos" from the Greek word for the clay amphorae that it is vinified and aged in. Nutty,
Wine Enthusiast 95 "Radiant and earthy, this blend of Frappato and Nero d’Avola boast enticing scents suggesting dark-skinned berry, leather, sunbaked earth, sea breeze and a
"Cos Pithos Rosso, biodynamic, Frappato and Nero d Avola, Amphorae. Fermented in concrete amphorae, Pithos Rosso Cos has a stunning nose of violets and raspberry
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