Why This Bottle, Really? Montefalco Rosso, Umbria, Raína

By Sara Jenkins

2011 Montefalco Rosso, Umbria, Raína, about $22 (imported into the US by Panebianco, Sunrise, and Villa Italia).

Montefalco, in Umbria in central Italy, is famous for Sagrantino, a highly tannic local grape that, with much reverence, is made into a dark, massively serious wine called, appropriately, Sagrantino. But as in many of Italy’s important wine-pr…