Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) vegan and there's a lifetime ahead

and there's a lifetime ahead

innovative natural wine and spirit project based in Puglia

by Juan Rejon

precision-focused vintage suits this limestone-driven vineyard perfectly

charming and poised as founder Kyle Maclachlan

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1988 (375ml) vegan and there's a lifetime aheadAvignonesi'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