2024 Monastero Suore Cistercensi 'Coenobium', 750ml

"The 2024 vintage marks 20 years of joyous partnership with the incredible sisters of Monastero Suore Cistercensi. This convent of 70 Cistercian nuns has been organically farming their five hectares of vines in Vitorchiano, Lazio, since the mid-1990s, but it wasn’t until our friend Giampiero Bea began advising them in the early 2000s that their wines gained a larger audience.

The sisters’ flagship wine, “Coenobium” is a blend of Trebbiano, Verdicchio, and Malvasia, harvested together and co-fermented without added yeasts or temperature stabilization. It is aged on its fine lees in steel and fiberglass tanks and bottled just before the next harvest without fining or filtering. This natural concentration results in a wine of exceptional mineral-driven tension, with a powerful smoke-iron interplay underpinning notes of green apple, fennel frond, and honey." - Rosenthal