2017 Paolo Bea "Cerrete" Sagrantino Secco di Montefalco Vigneto, Umbria, Italy

100% Sagrantino The Bea family has been residing in Montefalco, the beautiful hill town in Umbria, since the1500s. Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea is a classic Italian fattoria, producing wine, raising farm animals for trade and home consumption, and working the land to produce olives, fruits, and vegetables. In the 1908's Giampiero Bea was learning the ropes alongside his father Paolo—a through-and-through farmer. Paolo produced shockingly expressive wines using a bare minimum of technology, and while these staunchly old-school wines were out of step with the modernization-happy Italian trends of the 1980s and 1990s, they resonated deeply within the wine community and they continue to do so decades later. Giampiero has long been at the helm and his commitment to healthy farming and low-intervention cellar work has made him a pillar in the Italian natural wine community. But it is Paolo’s approach—so bred-in-bone as to seem instinctual—that guides the estate to this day, given voice and def