Monastero Suore Cistercensi

Eighty women live and work at the Monastero Suore Cistercensi in Vitorchiano, a hilltop village 30 miles north of Rome in the volcanic landscape of northern Lazio. They make cheese, beer, spirits, sweets, and wine, all within the walls of their self-sustaining community. The wines have, against the logic of the conventional wine world, become genuinely celebrated: not as a novelty, but as an expression of what happens when farming is honest and winemaking gets out of the way.

The Sisters have been farming their vineyards organically since the early 1990s, but it was in the early 2000s that their wines found a wider audience, when Giampiero Bea, son of renowned Umbrian natural winemaker Paolo Bea, began advising them on cellar practices. The partnership with Rosenthal Wine Merchant, which has distributed the wines in the United States and Japan for over two decades, brought the monastery's bottles to natural wine lovers internationally. Today the wines are poured in the world's finest natural wine lists.

More on how they farm and work in the cellar in our Monastero Suore Cistercensi producer profile.

Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium 2020

Monastero Suore Cistercensi

$60.00

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Monastero delle Suore Cistercensi Coenobium Ruscum 2020

Monastero Suore Cistercensi

$60.00

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Monastero delle Suore Cistercensi Benedic Sangiovese Ciliegiolo 2020

Monastero Suore Cistercensi

$50.00

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