Five prizes for Cupertinum’s wines

Here they are!
1. At the Wine Expo Poland 2019 two Gold medals and a Silver one. The International Jury of the Wine Expo Poland Awards prized with the Gold Medal the NEGROAMARO Salento Igt and the PRIMITIVO Salento Igt, and with the Silver Medal the COPERTINO Riserva Doc.
The Wine Expo Poland – which took place in Warsaw in October – is (with 2500 wines, more than 100 exhibitors, seminars, tastings, masterclasses) the largest trade fair not only in Poland but also in most of Eastern Europe. The Jury – composed of experts, journalists and sommeliers – awarded the three wines of Cupertinum claiming that “they are an expression of the Apulian territory, suited for Negroamaro and Primitivo, and are distinguished by elegance and harmony”.

2. The GLYKÓS has been awarded by AIS Sommeliers. “Dear Cupertinum, with immense pleasure I inform you that your GLYKÓS 2017 Passito Salento Igt has obtained FOUR SCREWS, the highest recognition, at VITAE 2020, the Italian Wine Guide of the Italian Sommelier Association”. With these words, Antonello Maietta, AIS president, announced the prestigious award obtained by the historic Winery from Copertino. It must be remembered that in recent years the Glykós has also received three times the AIS DolcePuglia Award.

3. The GLYKÓS has been awarded by the L’Espresso guide with 4 Bottles and it is among the 30 BEST PASSITES in Italy. The guide highlights all the Cupertinum’s labels: “also this year a repertoire of wines of extremely rare centering” and the Cupertinum is defined as follows: “a winery that has restored luster to the cooperative viticulture in Puglia”.

4. Decanter rewards the RISERVA COPERTINO DOC with the Silver Medal and 90 points! Already in 2018 the Cupertinum had received a Bronze Medal and two Certificates from the International Decanter Competition, with the following Salento IGT: Negroamaro, Spinello dei Falconi Rosato and Primitivo. This year the Cupertinum is still improving as this new important recognition demonstrates. The Decanter World Wine Awards is the largest international wine award. The wines of Cupertinum, especially reds based on negroamaro and primitive, have been appreciated by English critics for over half a century. Already in the 1980s Hugh Johnson – great old man of wine criticism who more than anybody else contributed to the wine literature and who is now a collaborator of Decanter – for the Sunday Times Competition awarded two Cupertinum’s wines: the Rosato and the Copertino Doc. And again on Decanter, Simon Woolf expressed himself as follows: “the Cupertinum gives a brilliant example with its Copertino Riserva, really delicious “.

5. The 2020 edition of the SlowWine Slow Food guide prizes Cupertinum’s SPINELLO DEI FALCONI, rosé, with the “Vino Quotidiano” award. The Wines awarded with this qualification are the “Excellent Wines under the organoleptic profile with an advantageous quality-price ratio”. The Slow Food guide underlines the historical importance of Cupertinum and the quality level of its labels.

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“I see confirmation and surprises in the new 2026 wine guides for our wines. With these awards, Cupertinum confirms its status as a company of excellence, reliable over time, dynamic in identifying new goals and achieving them,” says Francesco Trono, president of Cupertinum. Winemaker Giuseppe Pizzolante Leuzzi, now accustomed to the awards that come flooding in year after year, is also satisfied: “The focus on quality and modern winemaking that respects tradition is understood and rewarded. These awards reward the members, the winery’s workers, and the territory.”

 Here is a brief list of recent awards and prizes received by Cupertinum wines:

  • Cupertinum has been included among the best Italian wineries in Hugh Johnson’s Pocket Wine Book guide to wines from around the world. The renowned guide, edited by Margaret Rand, recommends: Copertino Riserva, Settantacinque, Spinello dei Falconi, and Negroamaro!
  • Danielle Callegari of Wine Enthusiast award: 92 points to Copertino Riserva DOC; 91 points to Primitivo Salento IGT: “two fantastic deals from this winery that confirm the high quality of the company’s labels.”
  • Wine Spectator awards Copertino Riserva DOC 2015: 89 points and Aldieri Primitivo Salento IGT 2021: 89 points (“well-elevated reds, medium-bodied, with light tannins,” says expert Eric Guido).
  • As far as international recognition is concerned, another great result is worth mentioning: the Gold Medal at the International Wine & Spirits Awards for COPERTINO RISERVA and POGGIANI Negroamaro.
  • Guida essenziale ai vini d’Italia (DoctorWine Daniele Cernilli )awards Copertino Riserva 92 points and Spibello dei Falconi 90 points.
  • The VITAE guide published by the Sommelier Association awards 4 VITI to Settantacinque Copertino and 3 VITI to Copertino Doc, Copertino Riserva, Poggiani Negroamaro, and Spinello dei Falconi. The sommeliers write: “wines of recognized and appreciated quality; the Negroamaro, in its various forms, represents the jewel in the crown.”
  • SlowWine: Cupertinum is featured in the SlowFood guide with the TopWine award for Spinello dei Falconi and a beautiful description that highlights the advantageous quality/price ratio, with accurate and complimentary organoleptic descriptions of all the wines.
  • The Touring Club’s Vinibuoni d’Italia guide awards our wines 4 stars to Copertino DOC Riserva, Copertino DOC and Spinello dei Falconi and 3 stars to Squarciafico Rosato and Settantacinque.
  • Bibenda, the guide published by the Italian Sommelier Foundation, awards Settantacinque, Copertino DOC Riserva, Aldieri Primitivo, and Poggiani Negroamaro with 4 Grappoli.
  • The Veronelli Guide awards 3 Red Stars to Settantacinque Copertino DOC and 2 Stars to all wines, with special mention to Spinello dei Falconi and all Copertino DOC wines.
  • The Il Golosario guide by Gatti/Massobrio names Primitivo as a Top Wine.

“Wine is the song of the earth to the sky” wrote the master of food and wine criticism Luigi Veronelli. It is worth repeating this for the awards given to Cupertinum wines!