2021 Cos Bianco "Ramì"

You could call this an orange wine if you wanted, though the color is closer to yellow. The grapes, half insolia (also known as ansonica) and half grecanico, are macerated with the skins for seven to 10 days, which gives the wine a mild tannic backbone. Otherwise it’s pure, lively and refreshing, tangy and textured. A terrific bottle from a leading producer in the Vittoria region.

Structured, tea-like skin-contact white wine from the original Sicilian natural winemakers. There is a lot of subtlety at play here, on opening the aromas are shy - this is a wine we recommend you open early or decant to let it fully open up. But nor is this a wine with heady aromatics; more the deep, savoury style with fine, expertly integratedd