Paolo Bea "Santa Chiara" Umbria Bianco 2020 750ml Knights Valley where red grapes never fully

where red grapes never fully ripen for table wine but produce something more interesting — a rosé that thinks like a white

on 10 centimeters of terres blanches clay-limestone over solid bedrock

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and barely alcoholic at 5% ABV

Paolo Bea "Santa Chiara" Umbria Bianco 2020 750ml Knights Valley where red grapes never fullyITALY : UMBRIA : MONTEFALCO ORGANIC : Grechetto, Malvasia, Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Garganega MED BODIED, MACERATED PEACH, CANDIED CITRUS, WHITE PEPPER, HONEY, NEUTRAL OAK Five grapes co planted, co harvested and co fermented on the Pagliaro hill in Montefalco the same cru that gives Bea his flagship Sagrantino, here farmed for the white grape parcels. A field blend orange wine from a producer who pre dates the natural wine wave by decades. The