Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 but the wine is built

but the wine is built on tension rather than richness

The result is even more complex than previous releases

A pure white flower nose gives way to brilliant notes of fresh chalk

This is intended to be a juniper-forward gin

with its clean surf and appealing fragrance of wild roses

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 but the wine is builtThe 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