One of the most tannic dry red wines in existence, Montefalco Sagrantino is the modern reinvention of an ancient sacramental wine — for centuries Sagrantino was dried and made sweet for the altar, and only in the late twentieth century was it turned into a monumental dry red. Nearly black, dense and structured, it needs a decade to soften.
Made only from the Sagrantino grape on the hills around the town of Montefalco, it rescued a variety that had all but vanished and put Umbria back among Italy's serious red regions. Uncompromising and built for the long haul, it is a wine for patient cellars.