Giusto Occhipinti

The Essentials Biodynamic viticulture and vinification sit at the center of the work at Azienda Agricola COS in Vittoria, Italy, where Giusto Occhipinti has been co-owner and marketing director since the estate’s founding in 1980. The practical side of that role is farm and cellar stewardship; the public side is framing how the estate is read beyond the property line. At COS, those two functions are not separate. They are the same discipline expressed in different registers. The estate’s identity has been built around a single operating idea: vineyard and cellar are treated as one process rather than as disconnected stages. Under Giusto Occhipinti, that approach gives the work a clear internal logic, with cultivation, harvest, and vinification held together in a continuous chain. The result is a method that places emphasis on coherence as much as outcome. Architecture remains the other key reference point in his formation. Giusto Occhipinti was trained as an architect, and that background reads in the way the estate is described: structure, proportion, line, and balance are not decorative terms, but working principles. In wine, as in architecture, the task is to make individual elements hold together without losing their character.

Signature

Giusto's signature wines include Cerasuolo di Vittoria Classico delle Fontane 2021 and Pithos Rosso 2015. They show the range of his work at COS without breaking from the same underlying approach: place, precision, and balance held in the same frame. The names themselves are part of the estate’s language, and together they mark the consistency of a cellar shaped by the same sensibility across different bottlings.