Paolo Bea Umbria Rosso San Valentino 2020 extra-brut-selection then spends at least a

then spends at least a year in barrel

sweet orange

Drinking beautifully now and built to hold another decade

and it is made with the same hands-off logic Diana Snowden Seysses brings back from her other job at Burgundy's Domaine Dujac

made in a pastoral setting far from factory production

Paolo Bea Umbria Rosso San Valentino 2020 extra-brut-selection then spends at least aPaolo Bea is an Umbrian superstar and one of the founding fathers of Italy's natural wine movement, an uncompromisingly old school estate where Giampiero Bea gives voice to his father's instincts through healthy farming and long, patient, low intervention winemaking. San Valentino is the estate's Montefalco Rosso style blend, drawn from an old vineyard of Sangiovese rounded out with Sagrantino and Montepulciano. It's more red fruited and supple than