Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar the bottle a generation of

the bottle a generation of drinkers reaches for when they want structure and character without the fuss

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The flavor is herbal and earthy

Some of the most interesting wine in the Alps comes out of a school

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar the bottle a generation ofThe 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