Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 This is Gamay grown in

This is Gamay grown in Italy's smallest and highest wine region

but the wine is built on tension rather than richness

This is intended to be a juniper-forward gin

brisk edge that makes Cortese such a good aperitif grape in the first place

pink peppercorn

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 NO20230816 This is Gamay grown inThe 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