Tasting Notes
Robin: "I adore this wine. It's gentle, like Lionel, and elegant, with beautiful balance. It's just coming into its window to drink now, and will keep quite a few more years - drink until 2025. I wholeheartedly agree with Ian D'agata's note in Vinous He really got it, which is not easy when wine is young and you're tasting a lot of Brunellos, which he would have been at the time."
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If you were a grape, this would be where you went on your holidays. At Cupano, perched on a beautiful ridge near Camigliano that slopes down to the Ombrone river, they harvest everything by hand and use a horse and plough to tend the soil. One of the things that demonstrates the great attention to detail shown by Cupano is that owner & winemaker, Lionel Cousin, walks through his vineyard every day removing individual berries with a pair of nail scissors. It is winemaking on a miniaturist scale. Compare that to the infamous story about one of Australia's huge wineries, where the double-width mechanical harvesters went through the vineyards with such indiscriminate disregard that when they went to press the grapes, one of the workers found a bicycle in the crusher.