COS Pithos Rosso 2021
Vittoria, Sicily

$31.99
28.99 3+ (code: 3saves3)

92 pts Vinous
Surpassing Expectations: New Releases from Sicily (Sep 2023) The 2021 Pithos Rosso is wildly fresh and exotic, with spiced citrus and incense evolving to reveal dried strawberries and sweet smoke. It washes across the palate with a pretty inner sweetness and crisp red and blue berry fruits, all nicely motived by juicy acidity. A cascade of inner florals and citrus tones echo throughout as the 2021 finishes with gently grippy tannins and remnants of spiced blackberry that linger on and on. A fantastic Pithos Rosso. - By Eric Guido on June 2023

Like the bianco, I like to call this the amphora wine for people that do not like amphora red wines or prefer a style more like regular red wine wines.

Area of production: Bastonca, 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.
Training system: Guyot.
Planting density: 5.000 vines/hectare.
Average age of vines in production: 25 years.
Harvest period: end of September, first days of October.
Fermentation: spontaneous in terracotta amphorae, on the skins with indigenous yeasts.
Aging: amphora and bottle.