Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar Some of the most interesting

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

The flavor is herbal and earthy

It is savory rather than sweet

A new expression from the Reeve team's Sonoma Coast project: 100% Chardonnay sourced from cool-climate hillside vineyards and aged 16 months in neutral oak

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Reasonable Cellar Some of the most interestingThe 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