Sagrantino di Montefalco Passito
Montefalco, Perugia, Umbria
Umbria's historic passito wine from the Sagrantino grape — one of Italy's most tannic grape varieties, grown only in the Montefalco zone of Perugia. For the passito style: bunches are dried on straw mats (appassimento) for 4-6 weeks until shrivelled and concentrated, pressed, and fermented slowly to produce a deep red, almost black, intensely sweet wine of extraordinary tannic grip and dried-fruit-and-dark-chocolate complexity. Long aged in Slovenian oak for 18-24 months. The counterpart to the Secco (dry) Sagrantino DOCG — both from the same grape, completely different expressions.