Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE From the producer: The latest

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

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

and bottles them separately because she believes the differences matter

the wine is greater than the sum of its parts

and stone-smoke elements

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 LD25SALE From the producer: The latestThe 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