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Paolo Bea 'Cerrete' Montefalco Sagrantino Secco, Umbria, Italy 2019 *presale!*
Regular price
$228.00
Pickup available at DECANT Napa - 2999 Solano, Napa, CA
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Presale! Available for pick up or shipping beginning December 3, 2025.
For over four decades, Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea has been making some of Italy's most uncompromising, singular wines. The Bea family has been documented in Montefalco since 1500, crafting boisterous, wild expressions of Umbria's sun-drenched hills. As a co-founder of the ViniVeri ("Real Wine") movement, Giampiero refuses shortcuts: no green harvesting, no sorting, no temperature regulation, no pumping, no fining, no filtering. Just patience and trust in time over technology.
- WINEMAKER: Giampiero Bea
- FARMING: Organic
- VARIETY: 100% Sagrantino
- TERROIR: The Cerrete vineyard, one of the highest-altitude sites in Montefalco, features poor, mineral-rich soils and acidity-preserving altitude. The Bea family has owned this parcel for some time, but it wasn't until the 2007 vintage that Giampiero deemed the vines old enough to do justice to the cru's potential. The 2019 vintage brought a warm, dry summer balanced by diurnal temperature shifts.
- VINIFICATION: 29-day maceration on skins with native yeasts. 15.5% alcohol. No temperature control, no pumping, no fining, no filtering.
- AGING: Nearly 4 years in cask.
- TASTING NOTES: For a wine clocking in at 15.5% alcohol, the 2019 Cerrete shows astonishing balance. Lighter on its feet than Pagliaro yet with greater nuance, as if the settings on a microscope were dialed up to render even more detail. A scrumptious core of macerated cherries is flanked by intoxicating church spices, with a density that feels endogenous to the terroir rather than the result of excessive extraction. This is a Sagrantino whose capacity for wildness is given full rein, yet whose precise and lithe movements still convey a sense of discipline.
- SCORES: 97 points, Vinous
Regular price
$228.00
Presale! Available for pick up or shipping beginning December 3, 2025.
For over four decades, Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea has been making some of Italy's most uncompromising, singular wines. The Bea family has been documented in Montefalco since 1500, crafting boisterous, wild expressions of Umbria's sun-drenched hills. As a co-founder of the ViniVeri ("Real Wine") movement, Giampiero refuses shortcuts: no green harvesting, no sorting, no temperature regulation, no pumping, no fining, no filtering. Just patience and trust in time over technology.
- WINEMAKER: Giampiero Bea
- FARMING: Organic
- VARIETY: 100% Sagrantino
- TERROIR: The Cerrete vineyard, one of the highest-altitude sites in Montefalco, features poor, mineral-rich soils and acidity-preserving altitude. The Bea family has owned this parcel for some time, but it wasn't until the 2007 vintage that Giampiero deemed the vines old enough to do justice to the cru's potential. The 2019 vintage brought a warm, dry summer balanced by diurnal temperature shifts.
- VINIFICATION: 29-day maceration on skins with native yeasts. 15.5% alcohol. No temperature control, no pumping, no fining, no filtering.
- AGING: Nearly 4 years in cask.
- TASTING NOTES: For a wine clocking in at 15.5% alcohol, the 2019 Cerrete shows astonishing balance. Lighter on its feet than Pagliaro yet with greater nuance, as if the settings on a microscope were dialed up to render even more detail. A scrumptious core of macerated cherries is flanked by intoxicating church spices, with a density that feels endogenous to the terroir rather than the result of excessive extraction. This is a Sagrantino whose capacity for wildness is given full rein, yet whose precise and lithe movements still convey a sense of discipline.
- SCORES: 97 points, Vinous