Name: COS Contrada Nero d'Avola 2020
Brand: Vittoria, Sicily
SKU: HAW-cosContrada
Price: 43.99 USD
Availability: InStock

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Made with 100% organic Nero d'Avola, the COS 2020 Contrada (in its distinctive squat bottle) shows bright and lifted fruit with redcurrant, wild cherry, blue flower and bitter almond. Made in cement only, it reveals a lean-bodied mouthfeel with a hint of elegant chalkiness on the tannins. Fruit comes from 50-year-old alberello (head-pruned) vines. This is a release of 3,000 bottles.

Area of production: Bastonaca, Vittoria (RG), South-East of Sicily.
Grape variety: Nero d’Avola 100%.
Agriculture: Organic.
Altitude: 230 Meters a.s.l.
Soil: red soil, medium consistency; formed of sub-apennine sands of Pliocene origin, of limestone-siliceous nature, interwoven with compact layers of fresh clay and siliceous sand.
Training system: head training.
Planting density: 8.000 vines/hectare.
Average age of vines in production: 50 years.
Harvest period: end of September, first days of October.
Fermentation: spontaneous on the skins with indigenous yeasts.
Aging: Slavonian barrels and bottle.