Azienda Agricola COS Vittoria Pithos Rosso

VINTAGE: 2017 COUNTRY: Italy REGION: Sicily APPELLATION: Vittoria Rosso WINE TYPE: Red VARIETALS: 60% Nero d'Avola, 40% Frappato ORGANIC: Certified VINEYARD: Sourced from estate vineyards in the hamlet of Bastonica in the Vittoria area. ORIENTATION: 230 meters in elevation. SOIL: Red soil of medium consistency; made up of subalpine sands composed of limestone and silica. VITICULTURE: Hand-harvested. Vines average 25 years of age. VINIFICATION: Spontaneous fermentation on the skins in concrete tanks for 10-15 days with indigenous yeast in amphorae. AGING: Aged for six months in amphorae followed by 2-3 months in concrete tanks. Finally three months in the bottle before release. NOTES: Pithos is the Greek word for amphora. 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