Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Secco Pagliaro 2020 CS20230713 hand-picked at dawn and whole-cluster

hand-picked at dawn and whole-cluster pressed for freshness

Attractive in its viscosity and warmth of the palate

a lick of honey — but wrapped around a beer's grain and body

then aging in a mix of new and neutral oak plus stainless

fruit-forward form

Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Secco Pagliaro 2020 CS20230713 hand-picked at dawn and whole-clusterPaolo Bea is an Umbrian superstar and one of the founding fathers of Italy's natural wine movement, an uncompromisingly old school estate where Giampiero Bea now gives voice to his father's instincts: healthy farming, indigenous yeasts, long macerations, and years of patient aging. The wines are boisterous, wild, and unmistakably alive. Pagliaro is the estate's most renowned bottling, pure Sagrantino from a prized hilltop site in Montefalco, fermented