“It's stunning and incredibly priced”
“the problem is finding them…”
When you read something like that about a wine we’ve had in stock for a while, it definitely puts a smile on your face…
This is what Luis Gutiérrez wrote about the wines of Lousas, the Galician project from Envínate. Many of our customers already know I have a real soft spot for the wines of Envínate.
These are not commercial wines. Quite the opposite: they have a distinctly Atlantic profile, are all about finesse, and are consistently light in colour.
They are made in the Ribeira Sacra appellation, in inland Galicia, but are sold without any official designation. With just 12.5% alcohol, they’re real lightweights – incredibly refined, with a cellaring potential until at least 2030.
Main grape is Mencía (yet another favourite of mine), in a field blend with many other traditional varieties. The vineyards are fully organically farmed.
And then that 95/100 score, with glowing praise:
R. Parker: 95/100
“The bottled 2023 Lousas Viñas de Aldea is perfumed, intoxicating and showy, with a floral note of dried rose petals that I also found in the Misturado from this same vintage. It's a blend of grapes, 80% Mencía and the rest a field blend of reds and whites, Brancellao, Merenzao, Alicante, Grao Negro, Mouratón, Jerez, Godello, etc., and zones, Amandi, Quiroga and Ribeiras del Sil with lots of gneiss and also slate and granite, depending on the plot. The grapes were picked between the first and 23rd of September, a very long harvest because of the rain. It fermented with 70% to 100% full clusters in concrete or plastic bins, and 30% of the volume remained in concrete and the rest matured in used barrels of different sizes, from 225 to 500 liters, for 11 months with lees and without racking. There's also a flinty smokiness that gives the wine a different twist. It's stunning and incredibly priced.
The bottled 2023s from Envínate are from Ribeira Sacra, but sadly, they are sold without appellation of origin. These wines are stunning, possibly their finest collection to date. There is a jump in perfume, complexity and elegance in Seoane, Rosende and Camiño Novo, wines that are a true bargain. The problem is finding them...”
And then… that price.
And yes, you can simply find it and buy it from us 😊.
Fancy one of the last 40 cases we still have in stock?
Don’t wait too long!