Tasting Notes
"Just mid ruby. Lifted nose of kirsch and raspberry with a hint of cigar box. Succulent acidity and ripe raspberry fruit with gripping tannins. Firm structure but a really elegant wine and no mean feat for this torrid vintage." 17++, JancisRobinson.com
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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.