Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White and this wine from Domaine

and this wine from Domaine Marquis d'Angerville is a stunning example of its potential

Brewed with spelt and spent up to three years in Chardonnay oak barrels

The result balances tropical sweetness with tangy floral character that feels alive and genuine in the glass

Guillaume Delarche sources only from 70-year-old Pinot Noir vines for this over-performing village wine

this cuvée is vinified in oak and aged extensively on the lees for complexity

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Wine Bar | Featured White and this wine from DomaineThe 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