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Paolo Bea Pagliaro Sagrantino 2015

Price: $140.00
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Tasting notes

This is 100% Sagrantino, one of the most tannic red grapes, grown on the Pagliaro vineyard at 1,300 feet. The wine is dry and full-bodied, with a critic describing aromatics of dusty rose, currants and tobacco alongside mineral-tinged red and black fruits and fine tannins. The estate describes it as its flagship wine.

BodyFruitTanninAcidity
BlackberryTobaccoCherryLeather
Wine details

Dry/Sweet:, Dry
Wine Type:, Red Wine
Wine Style:, Full Body
Grapes:, Sagrantino
Farming:, Organic
Vintage:, 2015
Alcohol:, 15%
Country:, Italy
Region:, Umbria
Appellation:, Montefalco Sagrantino DOCG
Bottle Size:, 750ml
Sugar Level:, Zero Added Sugar

  • Style: Dry, full-bodied red; 100% Sagrantino; aromas of tobacco, currants and dark fruit; 15% ABV
  • Grapes & Terroir: 100% Sagrantino; organically farmed; Pagliaro vineyard at 1,300 feet, clay and limestone soils, Montefalco
  • Winemaking: Spontaneous fermentation, 40-50 day cuvaison, aged 1 year steel, 2 years Slavonian oak, 1 year bottle, unfiltered
  • Serving: Serve at 16-18C; decanting recommended
  • Pairing: Wild boar, steak, osso buco, Fiorentina with potatoes
  • Similar To: Other 100% Sagrantino reds from Montefalco, Umbria

Pagliaro is a single-vineyard Sagrantino made by Azienda Agricola Paolo Bea in Montefalco, Umbria, Italy. The wine is 100% Sagrantino sourced from the Pagliaro vineyard, situated at 1,300 feet in altitude. After crushing and destemming, the grapes ferment spontaneously, with a cuvaison of forty to fifty days. The wine is then aged one year in stainless steel, two years in large Slavonian oak barrels and one year in bottle, and is bottled unfiltered.

A full-bodied, tannic Sagrantino like this pairs with red meat such as wild boar, steak and osso buco with thick sauces. One retailer suggests a large cut of steak, like a Fiorentina, with fried potatoes, sea salt, rosemary and thyme.

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Producer profile

Paolo Bea

References in the archives of Montefalco document the presence of the Bea family in this locality as early as 1500. Paolo Bea started bottling wine in 1980, and the estate is a classic Italian fattoria, producing wine, raising farm animals and working the land to produce olives, fruits and vegetables. The family controls the whole vinification process, from harvest to bottling, with no external consultant or oenologist employed.

The estate encompasses 15 hectares, with 5 dedicated to the vineyards. The vineyards are cultivated organically, with no herbicides or pesticides used, and all grapes are harvested manually. Sagrantino is the predominant grape, covering 60% of the vineyard surface, with the remainder planted to Sangiovese, Montepulciano and a small parcel of white varieties.

Giampiero Bea looks after the vinification, working with indigenous yeasts, long macerations and patient aging. Both white and red grapes are destemmed and soft crushed into steel vats, where they start fermentation naturally and continue without temperature control or additions of sulfur. All wines are bottled without fining or filtration.

Wine region

Umbria, Italy

Umbria is a landlocked region in the center of Italy, dominated by green valleys, hilltop medieval towns and mountains, including the Apennines. The vineyards around the town of Montefalco are home to the Sagrantino grape.

Even though Umbria's wine production is predominantly white, the black-skinned Sagrantino grape is a signature of the region and is not planted anywhere else in the world. The Sagrantino di Montefalco DOCG appellation was officially recognized in 1992 and comprises the area of Montefalco and its surrounding communes, and by law the DOCG must contain 100% Sagrantino.

Frequently asked question

We will process and ship your order in 2-3 business days, you will receive a shipping confirmation email with tracking as soon as the Carrier scans the shipping label.

Ground shipping time depends on location, here's a breakdown:

West Coast: 1-2 business days
Midwest: 3-4 business days
East Coast: 5 business days

Process time is not shipping time. Shipping time starts from the days successive to the day of shipping, after the order has been processed.

See here our shipping policy.

Signature on delivery is mandatory for wine deliveries. Please make sure someone is at the shipping address to sign for the package.

If applicable, please consider delivering the package to a business address to ensure someone is available to sign for the package.

We also have the option of delivering the package to a Carrier's store for pickup. Please reach out to us to coordinate.

Carrier will try to delivery a package up to three times before returning the package to us.

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If you miss a delivery and a package gets returned to us we have two options:

1) Reship the package right away: due to the very high cost of shipping and returns, we must charge a re-shipping fee to be determined based on package size and shipping destination.

2) Consolidate the returned package with your next order: this option is free of charge and it's the most popular option.

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