Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino 'Pagliaro' 2020

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Paolo Bea Montefalco Sagrantino 'Pagliaro' 2020Bea produces perhaps his most hallowed wine from pure Sagrantino grown on the hilltop site of Pagliaro, situated at nearly 400 meters above sea level in Montefalco proper. Beas wines at their best offer a panoply of spices so complex and evocative as to nearly defy belief, plus an irresistible sense of exuberant wildness that speaks both to Sagrantinos ferocity and to the trusting low interventionism of Beas methodology. The gloriously intense yet

A touch more racy with notes of game

Les Frionnes emphasizes the raciness of Saint-Aubin—there is virtually no new oak used in its élévage

Clearly articulated and very Alpine fruit undergirds a palate of remarkable tension and penetrating

Habitually

The wines are then aged in a variety of neutral oak and stainless steel then blended in tank before bottling

élevage is all in demi-muid (500L barrels)

it buries its bubbles beneath a bracingly tense texture which delivers notes of lemon curd

The grapes are not destemmed

The wine is fermented in oak barrels

The domaine has been certified organic since the 2012 vintage

Pouilly-Fuissé “Aux Combes” formerly constituted half of the “Trois Terroirs” cuveé

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