Producer: Monastero Suore Cistercensi
Region: Lazio, Italy  
Blend: 45% Trebbiano, 35% Malvasia, 20% Verdicchio 
Year: 2021 

Tasting Notes: 

"The wine’s co-harvested and co-fermented Trebbiano, Verdicchio and Malvasia translate the power of the Vitorchiano’s volcanic soils with a sombre interplay of smoke and iron with green apple, fennel frond, and honey.  Coenobium displays notable breadth - yet it is muscular and chiseled rather than corpulent."  

About the Producer: 

"It’s difficult to believe that we are preparing to receive our fourteenth vintage from the sisters of Monastero Suore Cistercensi. Led by Adriana and Fabiola this convent of 70 Cistercian nuns has been organically farming their five hectares of vines in Vitorchiano, Lazio, since the early nineties, but it wasn’t until the legendary Giampiero Bea began advising them in the early 2000s that their wines gained a larger audience.

Today, a ravenous US audience eagerly awaits each new release of “the nun wine,” and we at Rosenthal Wine Merchant cannot even come close to satisfying the huge demand. Even before Giampiero began helping them gently refine their approach and commercialize their wines—only to the US and Japan, it should be noted—he was struck by the frankness of a white wine produced with almost no technology. In a region rife with highly controlled, highly sulfured concoctions, here was a wine of real character, an unadorned expression of healthy grapes grown in a fascinating volcanic-soiled terroir."  

Alcohol: 12.5% 

Organically farmed. 

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