The current release of Filipa Pato’s non-vintage Beiras “3B” Extra Brut Rosé is composed of a blend of seventy-one percent Baga and twenty-nine percent Bical. The vins clairs are fermented with indigenous yeasts in stainless steel and the wine is aged nine months sur latte prior to disgorgement and does not see any dosage. It is fairly deep salmon in color and offers up a gorgeous bouquet of blood orange, rhubarb, rye bread, chalky soil tones, citrus peel and a topnote of dried rose petals. On the palate the wine is bright, young and full, with a lovely core of fruit, fine mineral undertow, frothy mousse and a long, youthfully complex and well balanced finish. This is a bit more approachable out of the blocks than Filipa’s Blanc de Blancs, but it is still a wine that will be even better if given just a bit of cellaring.