Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1990 (375ml) SpecialBurgsFeb2025 and the 2018 vintage offers

and the 2018 vintage offers ripe-edged but tense old-vine fruit

tangerine peel

and others—from ungrafted vines on Tenerife's volcanic soils

contemplative sipping

now joined by daughter Agnes

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1990 (375ml) SpecialBurgsFeb2025 and the 2018 vintage offersAvignonesi's Vin Santo is one of Italy's most revered sweet wines, the product of obsessive, low yield winemaking. Dried Malvasia, Grechetto and Trebbiano ferment and age for years in tiny sealed caratelli with the estate's century old "madre" yeast, with a large share of the wine evaporating during the long elevage. This 1990 comes from a private collection and is now fully mature, deep golden amber and beautifully resolved.