Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE and nutty aromas

and nutty aromas

From the producer: The latest permanent release from Basil Hayden consists of an entirely new brown rice mashbill and a secondary finish in toasted barrels

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and bottles them separately because she believes the differences matter

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE and nutty aromasThe 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