2019 COS Contrada Nero D'Avola Small lots of barrel fermented

Small lots of barrel fermented wines

with a hint of citrus zest

but the wines are stunning

pinot meunier and twenty percent are planted to pinot noir

fermentation in temperature controlled tanks

2019 COS Contrada Nero D'Avola Small lots of barrel fermentedThe Contrada bottling of Nero d'Avola is sourced from some of their oldest parcels from the Bastonaca area of Vittoria. Giusto Occhipinti of 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 not Italy as a whole. The winery was founded in 1980 by three friends, Giambattista Cilia, Giusto Occhipinti, and Cirino Strano. The initials of their last names