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2023 Envinate - Mencia Ribeira Sacra Lousas Vina de Aldea (750ml)
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SKU 103915

2023 Envinate - Mencia Ribeira Sacra Lousas Vina de Aldea (750ml)

$44.99 - $44.99
$44.99
$44.99 - $44.99
$44.99
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95 Points — Wine Advocate. One of Spain's most exciting wine projects, in peak form.

Founded by four friends who met at enology school, Envínate has redefined Spanish terroir with a minimal-intervention approach and a focus on volcanic, Atlantic-influenced vineyards.  The Lousas Viñas de Aldea is their village wine in the Burgundian sense — sourced from 12 different parcels across various sub-regions of Ribeira Sacra, ranging from 20 to 60 years of age, at 400–600 metres altitude on varied soils of slate and granite. 

The 2023 was a cooler, rainier vintage — more fluid and elegant than 2022, reminiscent of 2021 and 2016, with the wines showing terrific freshness, purity, and balance. Predominantly Mencía with Brancellao, Merenzao, Mouraton, and other co-planted indigenous varieties, fermented with whole clusters in open-top vats and aged in large foudres.

The Wine Advocate calls it "perfumed, intoxicating and showy" — dried rose petals, flinty smokiness, dark cherry, juicy red grapes, blood orange, white pepper, and cool minerals gliding across a silky, elegant palate. Stunning and incredibly priced.  James Suckling echoes the praise, calling it "ethereal and seductive — consistently one of the best entry-level wines of the region."

95 Points
"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. There were 31,150 bottles and 329 magnums produced. It was bottled in November 2024"
—Luis Gutiérrez-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Ribeira Sacra
Vintage: 2023
Region: Ribeira Sacra
Country: Spain
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Envinate
Envinate

95 Points — Wine Advocate. One of Spain's most exciting wine projects, in peak form.

Founded by four friends who met at enology school, Envínate has redefined Spanish terroir with a minimal-intervention approach and a focus on volcanic, Atlantic-influenced vineyards.  The Lousas Viñas de Aldea is their village wine in the Burgundian sense — sourced from 12 different parcels across various sub-regions of Ribeira Sacra, ranging from 20 to 60 years of age, at 400–600 metres altitude on varied soils of slate and granite. 

The 2023 was a cooler, rainier vintage — more fluid and elegant than 2022, reminiscent of 2021 and 2016, with the wines showing terrific freshness, purity, and balance. Predominantly Mencía with Brancellao, Merenzao, Mouraton, and other co-planted indigenous varieties, fermented with whole clusters in open-top vats and aged in large foudres.

The Wine Advocate calls it "perfumed, intoxicating and showy" — dried rose petals, flinty smokiness, dark cherry, juicy red grapes, blood orange, white pepper, and cool minerals gliding across a silky, elegant palate. Stunning and incredibly priced.  James Suckling echoes the praise, calling it "ethereal and seductive — consistently one of the best entry-level wines of the region."

95 Points
"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. There were 31,150 bottles and 329 magnums produced. It was bottled in November 2024"
—Luis Gutiérrez-Wine Advocate
Appellation: Ribeira Sacra
Vintage: 2023
Region: Ribeira Sacra
Country: Spain
Bottle Size: 750ml
Producer: Envinate