Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Secco Pagliaro 2020 Author DK the kind of bottle you

the kind of bottle you reach for when you want something honest and unfussy on a Tuesday night

and it will hold in the cellar for years if you have the patience

The Defaix family farms theirs organically and treats it with the same attention as their 1er Crus - quote from Helene Defaix: "we do the same work on a Petit Chablis that we do on a Premier Cru

and Burlotto is the producer who put this northerly corner of Barolo on the map

Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino Secco Pagliaro 2020 Author DK the kind of bottle youPaolo 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