Gold Medal for the Negroamaro Salento from the Cosimo Varvaglione Private Collection
“Excellence is an attitude,” proclaims The WineHunter, and Varvaglione 1921 agrees. This year, for the first time, the prestigious award arrives for the Negroamaro signed by Cosimo Varvaglione, confirming the leadership’s successful vision to invest in sustainable agriculture to produce wines of impeccable quality. A few years ago, the winemaker and owner of Varvaglione 1921 decided to launch an oenological project that was a pure expression of his creativity: a limited number of bottles resulting from extreme selection and high quality.
The vines are now fifty years old, and the grapes are handpicked at night after careful selection. Cosimo Varvaglione has put his signature on both the Primitivo and Negroamaro, which form a niche: his interpretation of the native grape varieties that define Puglia. He did this to give anyone tasting them the chance to find in these wines the character of the producer, the elegance of an ancient family history that has enhanced its origins and traditions, and the foresight of someone who lives in constant evolution and curiosity toward a future full of challenges and discovery.
This year, for the first time, the prestigious recognition from The WineHunter, led by Helmuth Köcher, arrives on the sea shores of Leporano. The award selects national and international wine excellences based on the evaluation of eight commissions made up of technicians, sommeliers, and journalists, who choose the top 100 wines considering a range of parameters from olfactory, visual, and taste analysis to production techniques and territoriality.
The Cosimo Varvaglione Private Collection is an oenological project that is giving us great satisfaction,” comments the owner of Varvaglione 1921, “and it is the natural continuation of an oenological and commercial project that sees our wines entering exclusively into restaurants and wine shops, thus marking a clear choice in terms of product quality to present to our consumers worldwide.