Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 The perfect accompaniment to breakfast

The perfect accompaniment to breakfast & orange juice

This is intended to be a juniper-forward gin

and that time is now

The result is even more complex than previous releases

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 The perfect accompaniment to breakfastThe 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