Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE and stone-smoke elements

and stone-smoke elements

Ceremonial Mezcal was mainly produced for special occasions only

and the fine thread of minerality Lafon always seems to find

and bottles them separately because she believes the differences matter

is a liqueur with a perfect balance: not too bitter nor too sweet

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE and stone-smoke elementsThe 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