IL MONASTERO OSCARS NOMINEE 2025
Il Monastero, a Sforzato di Valtellina DOCG and one of our flagship products, has been nominated for the Bibenda Red Wine Oscar 2025, the reputable industry magazine aimed not only at wine enthusiasts and professionals, but also to sommeliers, food and wine traders and their customers.
We are more than honoured to announce its nomination for this prestigious award, along with 9 other great wines of excellence of the Italian panorama, and we are truly thankful to Bibenda for this opportunity.
Regardless of the outcome, this nomination makes us enormously proud and represents an extraordinary showcase for our product, which by being alongside some real icons of the wine sector shows its temper.
VOTE FOR IT!
This year, there is a great news for this prestigious event: for the first time ever, all wine enthusiasts are called to express their preferences.
You will have one vote for each category of the competition: Sparkling, White, White Macerato, Rosé, Red, Sweet. For each category, 9 wines were nominated and the voter can choose his favourite among them.
The result of the votes will determine 3 Oscar Wines for each category, which will be protagonists of the 25th International Award of Wine Oscar Bibenda Sunday 25th May 2025.
How to vote? Register on www.bibenda.it, then go to your User Area and choose your favourite for each category proposed, voting is open until 15th December.
IL MONASTERO, SFORZATO DI VALTELLINA DOCG
Excellence of Valtellina, the Sforzato is a traditional wine made with Nebbiolo grapes harvested and left to dry in a fruit stand until at least December. It’s our red wine with the highest concentration of sugar and aromas, the symbol of the historic wine-growing economy in Valtellina.
Il Monastero, made from a strict selection of the grapes that dries for the Sforzato, is a red wine with an even more decisive character, showcasing the strength of those grapes that ripe on the steep slopes of Valtellina.
With an intense ruby red shade, its aromas vary from raspberry, violet and ripe plum to tobacco and chocolate. The palate is complex, concentrated and full of character, but still delicate: its acidity in good balance with ripe tannins and pleasant notes of wood that result from barrique aging make it an elegant and pleasantly persistent wine.
The ideal companion of savoury red meat and game, aged cheeses and dishes with intense flavours, this wine is also perfect to taste alone in moments of meditation.
You just have to try it! (And vote for it 😉)
