Paolo Bea Umbria Rosso San Valentino 2020 NO20231101 Very coy tannins make this

Very coy tannins make this dangerously easy to drink

and utterly distinctive

and built around vivid red fruit and bright acidity

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These wines represent some of the rarest and most distinctive bottles coming out of Portugal today

Paolo Bea Umbria Rosso San Valentino 2020 NO20231101 Very coy tannins make thisPaolo 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