COS Frappato IGP 2022

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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.

Area of production: Sicilia/ Sicily, Vittoria (RG), South-Eastern of Sicily.

Grape variety: Frappato di Vittoria 100%.

Agriculture: Organic – Natural – Biodynamic

Altitude: 230 Meters a.s.l.

Soil: red soil, medium consistency; formed of sub-apennine sands of Pliocene origin, of limestone-siliceous nature.

Training system: Guyot.

Planting density: 5.000 vines/hectare.

Average age of vines in production: 15 years.

Harvest period: end of September, first days of October.

Fermentation: spontaneous on the skins with indigenous yeasts.

Aging: concrete tanks and bottle.

“Remarkably pretty, the 2022 Frappato opens with a cascade of violets and lavender, giving way to citrus and blackberries. It’s soft and soothing on the palate with ripe wild berry fruits and licorice motivated by crisp acidity. It finishes long and with a liquid floral staining, yet freshness is expertly maintained through it all. The 2022 goes down far too quickly and at just 12.5% abv. Drink 2023 – 2027.”
92 Points Eric Guido – Antonio Galloni’s Vinous

Alc. 12.5%