Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar The flavor is herbal and

The flavor is herbal and earthy

It spends 9 months in neutral oak barrels and has been bottled unfined and unfiltered

Pure Champagne architecture from a sommelier-turned-winemaker dedicated to organic farming

Arnot-Roberts helped write the playbook for the "New California": restrained

Classic Chalone vineyard Chardonnay with a healthy mid-palate

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar The flavor is herbal 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