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Paolo Bea 'Pipparello' Montefalco Rosso Riserva, Umbria, Italy 2019 *presale*
Regular price
$109.00
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, Giampiero Bea has been making some of Italy's most uncompromising, singular wines at Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea, the estate named for his father. 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: 60% Sangiovese, 25% Montepulciano, 15% Sagrantino
- TERROIR: The Pipparello cru sits at 400 meters altitude on gravel and clay soils in Montefalco, Umbria. The 2019 vintage brought a warm, dry summer balanced by diurnal temperature shifts, producing intense, powerful, structured wines built for the cellar.
- VINIFICATION: 26-day maceration on skins with native yeasts. 14.5% alcohol. No temperature control, no pumping, no fining, no filtering.
- AGING: Nearly 4 years in cask.
- TASTING NOTES: Hauntingly dark with aromas of grilled herbs, cloves, flowery undergrowth, and dried black cherries. Silken textures carry vivid red berry fruits across the palate, followed by a cascade of spices and fine-grained tannins. A particularly refined expression of Pipparello with seamless concentration rather than brute structure, this is built for extended cellaring and displays Bea's masterful touch with Sangiovese, which achieves a wilder expression here than in neighboring Tuscany.
- SCORES: 96 points, Vinous
Regular price
$109.00
Presale! Available for pick up or shipping beginning December 3, 2025.
For over four decades, Giampiero Bea has been making some of Italy's most uncompromising, singular wines at Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea, the estate named for his father. 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: 60% Sangiovese, 25% Montepulciano, 15% Sagrantino
- TERROIR: The Pipparello cru sits at 400 meters altitude on gravel and clay soils in Montefalco, Umbria. The 2019 vintage brought a warm, dry summer balanced by diurnal temperature shifts, producing intense, powerful, structured wines built for the cellar.
- VINIFICATION: 26-day maceration on skins with native yeasts. 14.5% alcohol. No temperature control, no pumping, no fining, no filtering.
- AGING: Nearly 4 years in cask.
- TASTING NOTES: Hauntingly dark with aromas of grilled herbs, cloves, flowery undergrowth, and dried black cherries. Silken textures carry vivid red berry fruits across the palate, followed by a cascade of spices and fine-grained tannins. A particularly refined expression of Pipparello with seamless concentration rather than brute structure, this is built for extended cellaring and displays Bea's masterful touch with Sangiovese, which achieves a wilder expression here than in neighboring Tuscany.
- SCORES: 96 points, Vinous