COZs "Pop" Vital Branco 2023 Style:Orange • Skin Contact criticizing rules that ‘standardize’ winemaking

criticizing rules that ‘standardize’ winemaking and pushing to improve farming practices across the region

Her subsequent journey has been to move to Italy and make natural wine in Lazio

Now it is experiencing a renaissance of sorts and being vinified with the same adherence to quality as the king of white Burgundy grapes

only 20% spent 12-days fermenting on skins before being pressed into used barrel"

COZs "Pop" Vital Branco 2023 Style:Orange • Skin Contact criticizing rules that ‘standardize’ winemakingThe COZ project is a partnership of Tiago Teles of Gilda and RAIZ and Antonio Marques da Cruz of Serradinha (featured in November's Direct Press, he puts ladybugs on the corks). They joined forces in order to work the land of one of their winemaking heroes, Jose Mendona of Quinta dos Cozinheiros, who passed away tragically. The name COZ is taken from his winery. After a few vintages they acquired some more parcels in the Montejunto mountain range, a