Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) SO031026 Fornerot A serious Premier Cru drinking

A serious Premier Cru drinking near its peak

This beloved family estate farms the highest

it belonged to Pierre Magne

tucked into the cooler reaches of Napa’s Chiles Valley

then patiently

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) SO031026 Fornerot A serious Premier Cru drinkingAvignonesi'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