Tasting Notes: Bucce means skins, as in macerated on the skins / macerato sulle bucce. This macerato / orange wine is very drinky: sour Mirabelle plums, sea salt, and dried white flowers float on bass notes of coastal wild rosemary... Read More
Tasting Notes: The Monteraponi Trebbiano undergoes a 48-hour maceration on the skins, followed by fermentation in both concrete and oak. Afterward, it matures for nearly a year. The resulting wine is characterized by its rounded,... Read More
Estate History: References in the archives of Montefalco, the beautiful hill town in Umbria, document the presence of the Bea family in this locality as early as 1500. This tiny estate is the classic Italian fattoria, producing... Read More
Tasting Notes: The second of Bea’s two early and highly influential skin-macerated white wines, “Santa Chiara” hails from the fabled Pagliaro cru, and combines roughly equal proportions of five varieties: Garganega,... Read More
