Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1990 (375ml) so032425 vodka offer who took the reins in

who took the reins in 2003 — the family had sold their grapes to the local Tain l'Hermitage cooperative since 1933 (when Louis Belle joined)

fermented and slowly distilled with laser focus

Bodegas Hermanos de Peciña produces traditional Rioja from estate vineyards in San Vicente de la Sonsierra

and a touch of tobacco and leather

The pale pink color is a giveaway: this is rose in the dry

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1990 (375ml) so032425 vodka offer who took the reins inAvignonesi'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.