2022 Monastero Suore Coenobium Ruscum, Lazio, Italy
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Trebbiano, Malvasia, & Verdicchio
This special bottle is made by the Sisters of the Cistercian order living and working at their monastery in Vitorchiano, ninety minutes or so north of Rome in the Lazio district, and organically tending to their vineyards and gardens. They are making unadorned wine with real character with little to no technology. In the 2000s Giampiero Bea met the nuns and began consulting on their already noble skills gaining "the nun wine" critical acclaim and a almost cult following.
The Ruscum is an orange wine seeing skin contact for 15 days. Dried apricot, chamomile, fennel with grapefruit peels and structured backbone.