Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) vegan low-intervention mold

low-intervention mold

One of the classic triple-sec styles of orange liqueur

enormous sweetness

by Juan Rejon

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) vegan low-intervention moldAvignonesi's Vin Santo is one of Italy's great cult sweet wines, and it earns the reputation through sheer obsession. White grapes (Malvasia, Grechetto and Trebbiano) are dried on mats for months, then fermented and aged for years in tiny sealed caratelli inoculated with the estate's century old "madre" yeast, with a huge share of the liquid lost to evaporation. The result is a tiny production of intensely concentrated nectar. This 1988 comes from a