Monteraponi is more than just a winery
while the other three plots are more limestone-dense with some clay
it’s always about the balance
As fresh and pure as a mountain stream
and a gentle tannic grip through a clean
2024 Pheasant's Tears Vardisperi Rkatsiteli Beaujolais Monteraponi is more than justDried flowers, rooibos tea, crunchy berries, and a salty, ocean like finish gorgeous pink copper color, more amber wine than ros. Vardisperi is a rare pink skinned mutation of Rkatsiteli that was nearly extinct before Pheasant's Tears helped revive it. Hand harvested, three weeks skin maceration, fermented and aged in buried qvevri clay vessels some up to 200 years old. Organically farmed, no fining, no filtering, near zero sulfur. Founded by John