News, Accolades and Medals

2017 Best Wine of the World Competition

2015 pureCru Purety - Best American White Wine

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2014 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

2010 Sangio Vetta – Silver
2010 Secret 7 – Gold
2010 Cabernet Sauvignon – Silver
2010 Petite Sirah – Silver
2010 Purety – Best of Class
2009 M. Coz – Bronze
2009 pureCoz – Bronze

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2013 Jefferson Cup Awards

2010 Sangio Vetta –Excellence Award
2010 Secret 7 – Excellence Award
2010 Cabernet Sauvignon – JC Nominee Award
2010 Petite Sirah – Excellence Award
2010 CFM – Merit Award

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2012 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition

"Silver Medal" 2010 | pureCru Pinot Noir
"Silver Medal" 2010 |  pureCru Chardonnay
"Silver Medal" 2010 | Purety White Meritage

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2009 | Secret 7 Cabernet Sauvignon

Robert Parker - 92 Points 

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2006 | pureCos Napa Valley Red Wine

Gold Medal & Best of Class, Super Tuscan Division
2010 Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits Competition

Gold Medal “Great Wine” Designation
Jefferson Cup Wine Competition

Silver Medal
2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition

Silver Medal
2010 Pacific Rim Wine Competition

Silver Medal
2011 American Fine Wine Competition

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2007 pureCoz Napa Valley Red Wine

2010 Jefferson Cup Wine Competition (Gold Medal and Sweepstakes Winner)

2011 Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits Competition – 96 Points

Wine Enthusiast - 92 Points

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2007 | Sangio Vetta

Best of Class, Gold Medal
2011 Los Angeles International Wine and Spirits Competition – 96 Points

Wine Enthusiast – 88 Points (April 2012)

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2007 | pureCru Cabernet Sauvignon

Gold Medal Jefferson Cup Wine Competition

Wine Enthusiast – 88 Points (April 2012)

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pureCru Scores Big at the Los Angeles International Wine Competition

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Napa Valley WINE OF THE WEEK: COUPLES & CO 2009 CHARDONNAY

"There is really no better way to describe the wine than to say it smells like fresh flowers and sky. . . this wine is bottled spring. . . This is not a big, oaky Napa Valley chardonnay, but a wine that lets the fresh fruit flavors stand out." Catherine Seda, St. Helena Star

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AWARDS

Couples & Co (PDF) 

pureCru (PDF)

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MASTERS CHAMPION AND CHAMPION WINEMASTER TEAM UP FOR A WIN

Fred Couples and Mitch Cosentino have teamed up to form Couples & Co., a wine brand that celebrates a shared Italian heritage and fine, limited-production wine.

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VETERAN MITCH COSENTINO LAUNCHES “A WINEMAKER’S WINE PROJECT”

Mitch Cosentino, celebrating 30 years of winemaking, has launched pureCru Napa Valley, a small producer of wines designed to accompany fine world cuisine.

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coz and effect
winemaker mitch cosentino blends a passion for golf and the grape

“hey, mitch!”. . .“mitch, how ya doin’?”. . .“Got a second, Mitch?” Everyone at the PGA Merchandise Show wants a moment with Mitch Cosentino as the affable, sprightly 56-year-old darts around Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center. Is he this year’s hot new club designer? A swing guru, perhaps? Or a guy who can get tickets to the Masters? Actually, he’s a winemaker.

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