2014 Monastero Suore Cistercensi "Coenobium" Lazio Bianco

We've heard it a number of times, even from people knowledgeable about wine--that the wines of Lazio are really nothing special, just simple quaffers. Well, Giampiero Bea's collaboration with the Sisters at Monastero Suore, a Cistercian monastery in Vitorchiana, 90 minues north of Rome, produces one of the finest Italian wines we've ever tasted and IT'S from Lazio. The Coenobium is a white table wine fermented on its skins that comes from the Malvasia, Verdicchio, Grechetto and Trebbiano vines the Sisters tend organically.