Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider From the visionary team of

From the visionary team of Álvaro Palacios and Ricardo Pérez comes a wine that captures Bierzo's Mediterranean soul: Pétalos sourced from old Mencía vines across the appellation

and the untamed beauty of Patagonia

refreshing finish with subtle pastry notes emerging as it unfolds in the glass

and it is no shortcut wine: roughly 85% comes from young vines in his top crus at Breze and Saint-Cyr-en-Bourg

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Lazio Rosso Benedic 2024 Wine Bar | Sparkling & Cider From the visionary team ofThe 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