What they tell about us
“.Paolo Bea, told us how he grows vines without the need of chemicals, including an ingenious method to improve exhausted soil that involved planting globe artichokes under the vines.”

From “The Guardian” 19/07/2003

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“On minute the label of this Sagrantino, (.) is read in capital ‘The Wine is alive’. This is the great faith of the family it Bea (.). Their vineyards are well kept but they certainly are not that gardens where little clusters survivors have the whole space of this world. If the plant one year (lock staying the short prunings and the absolute lack of chemical manuring) she wants to produce more, she wants to say that it feels him in degree to do him/it and therefore, whether to intervene.”

From “Il Buono e il cattivo: la sfida.” 6/12/2003

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A small firm opened to the world, with the ambition to be ambassadress of his/her own territory with the intent to safeguard its tradition.

From “La Nazione Umbria” 28/11/2004

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To every death of Pope it is worth to turn half Rome to give him the Sagrantino of Paolo Bea. (.) the two fingers of wine left in the bottle, for experiment, they are oxidized in the turn of a night. Attention: that the wine later the day is not better it is a good sign. Only dead wines are such and what after a long exposure to the air, while the Sagrantino of it Feels happy it is an alive wine, without additive and not filtrate and therefore sensitive to the warm one, to the cold, to the light, to the movements you bream, as a creature. For this wine you/he/she has spoken of “thin rusticity.” To say a country nobility an elegance not varnished.

From “Il Foglio Quotidiano” 23/04/2005

From YouTube – Sagrantino Di Montefalco and Heart to Heart! – Episode #394
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