Paolo Bea 'Rosso de Véo' 2019 Rosso Montefalco, Umbria

750ml bottle

14% abv

Dark, brooding Sagrantino with dense black cherry, blue fruit, and savory herbal tones. Structurally powerful but lifted by mineral freshness, showing Bea’s signature earthy, autumnal character. Long, chewy, and tannic, with lingering spice and licorice—built for cellaring but enjoyable now with air.

FARMING: Organic
VARIETY: 100% Sagrantino
TERROIR: Rosso de Veo (Veo is the way the family's name is pronounced in old Umbrian dialect) is sourced from younger Sagrantino vines around the property and from parcels that don't quite make Giampiero's rigorous cut for Pagliaro, Pipparello, and Cerrete. The 2019 vintage brought a warm, dry summer balanced by diurnal temperature shifts.
VINIFICATION: 45-day maceration on skins with native yeasts. No temperature control, no pumping, no fining, no filtering.
AGING:  12 months in stainless-steel tanks followed by 24 months in large, Slavonian oak botti. Unfined, unfiltered, no added sulfur with 40-55mg/l total sulfur.

Rosso de Véo is a selection of the Bea estate’s younger Sagrantino vines, principally from the Cerrete vineyard which graces the highest point in Montefalco, between 1300 and 1500 feet above sea level. The soil is clay and limestone infused with small pebbles from an ancient riverbed. This wine is vinified in a similar fashion to the single vineyard Sagrantino with a long cuvaison which extends forty to fifty days. The wine is then aged one year in stainless steel tanks, two years in large oak barrels and another year in bottle before release. Bottled unfiltered.

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.