Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 no ups 40% pinot noir

40% pinot noir

deep green herbal

Critics have praised their ability to walk the line between power and restraint

Rodez crafts this wine with meticulous care

Monkey 47's master distiller searches for a single rare botanical—the Species Rara—to add as the 48th ingredient in this limited annual release

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 no ups 40% pinot noirThe 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