Tasting Notes
'The 2018 Rosso di Montalcino is sweetly spiced and floral, with plumb strawberry complemented by hints of cinnamon and clove. It’s silky and vibrant, ushering in juicy ripe cherries and raspberries over a core of zesty acids. There’s so much concentration of primary fruit here that it actually coats the palate, yet balance is maintained throughout. Hints of licorice linger over a bed of gentle tannin, well framing the expression. This is a great introduction to the Cupano style...' Eric Guido, Vinous, 2021
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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.