COS, Yesterday, today.

Azienda Agricola COS was founded in 1980 by Giambattista Cilia, Giusto Occhipinti and Cirino Strano. Three friends who wanted to go over what had once been the work of their ancestors. The acronym of their surnames (Cilia-Occhipinti-Strano) gives rise to the name of the company, still a partnership. In 1980, the youngest winemakers in Italy.
They have received in rent from Joseph Cilia, Titta's father, the old family winery and the vineyard sapling of 3.60.40 hectares in the historic town of Bastonaca. On October 5, harvested the first vintage that will produce 1470 bottles.
So begins the adventure that will take her to carry out a radical restructuring of the Cerasuolo di Vittoria.

Between 1983 and 1985 Titta and Giusto graduated in architecture and Rino in medicine, who decided in 1985 to sell his share to his sister Giuseppina, to devote himself completly to be a doctor.
Villa Fontane was purchased in 1991, a property of 9 hectares of the Family Moltisanti in the district of Fontane-Baucina. Then they planted the first 8 hectares of vineyard.
Pinuccia in 1995 sold its share in Titta and Giusto. The property acquired new and valuable nearby fields.

The company follows the principles of biodynamic viticulture to the vineyard to help find and keep balance in harmony with nature and the wine to express the character of its soils.
They began to use clay anphoras. Material that does not give any characteristic flavour. The first jars come from Spain in September 2000. Pithos born, a Cerauolo of Victoria, fully fermented and aged in amphoras. It's the beginning of a project that will lead to a definitive move away from the Cos conventional production , showing the true Cos Style.
After completing the restoration of Fontane buindings, they trasferred the head office there in 2003.
The rural buinding also hold the Business Resort open for COS's friends all over the world.

In 2005 the company purchased the property adjacent to Villa Fontane about 20 hectares, holding an extraordinary wine cellar dating from the nineteenth century . Immediately begin the renovation of the building and the new winery .
The year 2005 will be the first harvest with the Guaranteed Denomination of Origin, unique in Sicily .

The 2007 vintage in the new buildings , opened the cellar and marks again a chapter in the history of this company.
The barriques, giving way finally to 150 amphoras, making our anphoras room become one of the most capacious.
It is also produced Pithos Bianco from Grecanico grapes.
So today COS is synonymous of Cerasuolo di Vittoria , but also of rigor and quality. In this business, intuition of these three friends, we owe the revival of the district of Victoria and its extraordinary wines.