{"title":"Monastero Suore Cistercensi","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighty 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore on how they farm and work in the cellar in our \u003ca href=\"\/blogs\/natural-wine-producers-primal-wine\/monastero-suore-cistercensi\"\u003eMonastero Suore Cistercensi producer profile\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"benedic-sangiovese-ciliegiolo-monastero-suore-cistercensi","title":"Monastero delle Suore Cistercensi Benedic Sangiovese Ciliegiolo 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenedic is the red wine produced by the Cistercian nuns at Monastero Suore Cistercensi in Vitorchiano, Lazio, about 90 minutes north of Rome. It is a blend of roughly equal parts Sangiovese and Ciliegiolo grown on volcanic soils. The grapes are farmed organically and harvested by hand, and the wine is made under the guidance of Giampiero Bea, son of Paolo Bea. The wine undergoes a 15-day natural fermentation without any forced stabilization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monastero Suore Cistercensi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712663359704,"sku":"MONABENE20C","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/benedic-sangiovese-ciliegiolo-monastero-suore-cistercensi-deslop.png?v=1784584416"},{"product_id":"coenobium-ruscum-monastero-suore-cistercensi","title":"Monastero delle Suore Cistercensi Coenobium Ruscum 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoenobium Ruscum is an orange wine produced by the Cistercian nuns of Monastero Suore Cistercensi in Vitorchiano, Lazio, about ninety minutes north of Rome. The sisters have organically farmed five hectares of vines on volcanic soils since the early 1990s, with winemaking guided by consultant Giampiero Bea since the early 2000s. It is a blend of Trebbiano, Malvasia, and Verdicchio, harvested by hand and co-fermented with native yeasts. The pressed juice is given extended skin contact of fifteen days or more, and the wine is bottled without fining or filtering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monastero Suore Cistercensi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713052152024,"sku":"MONARUSC20C","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/coenobium-ruscum-monastero-suore-cistercensi-deslop.png?v=1784584424"},{"product_id":"coenobium-monastero-suore-cistercensi","title":"Monastero Suore Cistercensi Coenobium 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoenobium is the flagship white made by the Cistercian sisters of Monastero Suore Cistercensi in Vitorchiano, Lazio, with consulting from Giampiero Bea of Paolo Bea in Montefalco, Umbria. It is a blend of 45% Trebbiano, 35% Malvasia, and 20% Verdicchio grown on volcanic soils. The grapes are harvested together and co-fermented without added yeasts or temperature stabilization. The wine is aged on its fine lees in steel and fiberglass tanks and bottled just before the next harvest without fining or filtering.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Monastero Suore Cistercensi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42713084166360,"sku":"MONACOEN20C","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0019\/3363\/9735\/files\/coenobium-monastero-suore-cistercensi-deslop.png?v=1784584432"}],"url":"https:\/\/primalwine.com\/collections\/monastero-suore-cistercensi.oembed","provider":"Primal Wine","version":"1.0","type":"link"}