Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 with its clean surf and

with its clean surf and appealing fragrance of wild roses

This is Gamay grown in Italy's smallest and highest wine region

This is intended to be a juniper-forward gin

and that time is now

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 with its clean surf andThe nuns really do make the wine. The Cistercian sisters of Vitorchiano, about an hour north of Rome, farm their vineyards themselves and have done so organically since the early 1990s, with Giampiero Bea of Paolo Bea advising them since the early 2000s. Benedic is their only red and the hardest of their wines to lay hands on: equal parts Ciliegiolo and Sangiovese with a splash of Merlot (45 45 10) grown on volcanic soils, fermented naturally for