2009 COS Sicilia Pithos Rosso

Community Tasting Notes (17) Avg Score: 89.6 points

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  6/12/2023 - seattlecook Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Great table wine from COS. Drinking beautifully at this moment. Drank over two nights and held up well. Well balanced, and only 12% abv. Wish I had more than one bottle left

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  3/22/2016 - rsbeck wrote: 93 Points

  Popped, poured, consumed over next three hours. Tannin has softened. This has developed well. Drank well the entire evening, no drop off. Lovely wine, fresh, complex, unique, wish I had bought more.

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  11/4/2013 - Johan - Antwerpen Likes this wine: 98 Points

  Supernatural, light brown red, decant for a about an hour. I couldn't resist longer. Earthy, fresh, natural, extremely elegant and well balanced wine.
  Cedar, leather and Sandalwood.

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  8/23/2013 - pepmi wrote:

  This wine will bring you back to the Roman Empire. You have to love this wine because of 1) the history behind the wine making COS partnership and friendship; 2) the sexy shape of the bottle; and 3) the ancient wine making methods used including fermenting and aging in amphora pots buried to neck level in the ground. Bio-dyanmic to boot. With that perspective, you'll certainly taste as much terroir as fruit including hints of clay from the jars. This is an esoteric "cult" wine with more bragging rights than any of those Californians charging 10 times more with nothing to back it up other than a Parker score or two. At $34 a bottle, how can you not love COS Pithos. Et tu, Screaming Eagle!

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  3/20/2013 - rsbeck wrote: 92 Points

  Popped, poured a large glass, aired for 60 minutes, refilled bottle, brought to off-line get together. Light bodied and elegant, but full of interesting nicely intense interwoven flavors. Due to the pre-airing, it was singing from the start and continued to open over the following three hours. Red fruit mixed with blood orange, savory herbs, iron, a touch of leather with a moderately persistent and refined tannic finish.

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