Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1991 (375ml) so062423 magnums for july 4th or poured across vanilla ice

or poured across vanilla ice cream and left alone

The purest expression of natural-wine philosophy from a man who helped invent it: Cuvee N is Marcel Lapierre's zero-sulfur Morgon

Frog's Leap founder and winemaker John Williams

producing Beaujolais that ages like fine Burgundy

Drink on its own on a sunny day

Avignonesi, Vin Santo di Montepulciano, 1991 (375ml) so062423 magnums for july 4th or poured across vanilla iceAvignonesi's Vin Santo is among Italy's most sought after sweet wines, and it's made the hard way: white grapes dried for months, then years of aging in tiny sealed caratelli with the estate's century old "madre" yeast, with much of the liquid lost to evaporation. The output is tiny and intensely concentrated. This 1991 is from a private collection and now fully mature, amber gold and resolved.