Wines
Summary
School friends Giambattista Cilia (C), Giusto Occhipinti (O) and Pinuccia Strano (S) began making wine for pleasure and ended up creating a company that would become one of the most well-known wines in Sicily and all of Italy. In 1980, they were the youngest wine producers in Italy and started an old family winery from Giambattista Cilia’s father and farmed 3.6 hectares of bush trained vines from family vineyards.
Azienda Agricola COS wines are made from biodynamically grown fruit by natural winemaking techniques. The wines have no added SO2, and most wines are fermented and aged in terracotta amphora dug into the earth. Wines not aged in amphora are aged in resin-lined concrete vats and bottled in traditional Sicilian squat bottles.
The winery follows the principles of biodynamic faming in order to help the vines find and maintain a balance with nature in order to be able to express their true character and that of their terroir.
