Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1989 (375ml) overlooked us regions This is something else entirely

This is something else entirely — a structured

A 40-year-old museum piece from the man who rewrote Barolo

The result: a wine of mineral precision and fresh vitality

It's Allemand's gift to those who want serious Cornas without the weight—though "serious" and "lighter" are all relative when a legend is pouring

The house traces its origins to 1785

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1989 (375ml) overlooked us regions This is something else entirelyAvignonesi's Vin Santo is one of Italy's great cult sweet wines, made with near fanatical patience. White grapes (Malvasia, Grechetto and Trebbiano) are dried for months, then fermented and aged for years in tiny sealed caratelli using the estate's century old "madre" yeast, while much of the wine simply evaporates away. What's left is a tiny, intensely concentrated production. This 1989 is from a private collection and now fully mature, deep amber