As with many of the producers in The Italian Spirits Company portfolio, it is not accurate to describe Scuppoz as a distillery. This is one part laboratory and one part atelier, helmed by mad scientist Adriano Cicconi, who runs the company founded by his father, Benito, in 1982. “Scuppoz” is a word from local dialect, now mostly forgotten, which describes the clinking of glasses during a toast; it is now the name of the family’s historic trattoria in the Valle Castellana as well as their craft spirits laboratorio just outside Teramo.