2022 COS, IGP Terre Siciliane Frappato

If you have any interest in Italian wine whatsoever, you are likely acquainted with Sicily’s native Frappato grape—and, in all likelihood, COS was the producer who provided the introduction. In any case, today’s wine is a Southern Italian benchmark and an uncommonly delicious, lighter-weight red that has arrived just in time for summer. This wine, especially when given a slight chill, a short decanting, and a nice Burgundy glass, is arguably all you need to have at the ready for the next three to four months: It’s versatile as all get-out, aromatic, ready to enjoy immediately and as evocative of its place of origin as any wine could hope to be. It may go without saying that COS Frappato is a darling of the sommelier set, but you don’t have to just sit back and hope to encounter it on a good wine list someplace. Nope, today is the time for decisive action—you need at least a few bottles of this icon ever at the ready! As many SommSelect subscribers already know, COS is perhaps the most