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Envínate
Lousas,
Viñas de Aldea 2023
Ribeira Sacra
R.Parker: 96/100
22,77 €
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R. Parker: 96/100
"I tasted a very promising barrel sample of the 2023 Lousas Viñas de Aldea, cropped from a more Atlantic, cooler and rainier year (especially when compared with the super warm and dry 2022). Right now, it's super primary (the blend will have some 40% to 45% wine from concrete), and they are slowly introducing larger oak foudres (3,000 liters) and lowering the impact of the oak in the wine. This has very good freshness, purity and elegance, reminiscent of past vintages like 2021 or 2016. It has terrific balance."
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Envínate
Lousas,
Rosende 2023
Ribeira Sacra
R.Parker: 98/100
37,85 €
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R. Parker: 98/100
"The 2023 Rosende Lousas, despite its youth, is showing superbly. This feels different, perhaps a little more Rhône-ish, with a meaty edge. It's beautifully textured and elegant, with more weight than the lighter 2022, more serious and with more depth and structure. It has 12.5% alcohol."
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Envínate
Lousas,
Doad 2023
Ribeira Sacra
R.Parker: 96/100
37,85 €
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R. Parker: 96/100
"The sample of the 2023 Doad Lousas comes from a mixture of terroirs, all in mostly 228-liter barrels but some larger ones too. 2023 seems like a superb vintage for the wines from Envínate in Ribeira Sacra, wines with good ripeness but contained alcohol. This has a medium-bodied palate with very fine, chalky tannins, mostly from gneiss and schist soils. It has around 12.5% alcohol. They have more volume, but part will be used for the Viñas del Aldea blend."
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Lousas
Camiño Novo 2023
Ribeira Sacra
R. Parker: 99/100
58,21 €
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R. Parker: 99/100
"After the absence this wine in 2022 because of the hail, the 2023 Lousas Parcela Camiño Novo follows the superb 2021 with another "classical" and Atlantic vintage in Ribeira Sacra. This is a field blend of 85% Mencía, 12% Alicante Bouschet and the rest a mixture of Brancellao, Merenzao and Grao Negro, etc., that always produces a more backward wine, and it's a little reductive right now. It has a moderate 12.5% alcohol and a super balanced and mineral palate that is textured and elegant. This is still very young and should only get better with time, but with time in the glass, the wine shows its nuance and complexity. It's a superb wine. This could very well be the finest Camiño Novo to date and perhaps the most complete wine ever produced by Envínate in Ribeira Sacra."
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Lousas,
Seoane 2023
Ribeira Sacra
R. Parker: 98/100
58,21 €
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R. Parker: 98/100
"The 2023 Lousas Parcela Seoane is very primary and undeveloped, with some notes of honey and beeswax, from a year when the wines show their character in a clearer way than in 2022. It's a cooler, more Atlantic vintage with more rain that takes the wines back to the character from before, cooler vintages like 2014, which are a rarity now. This is the ripest of the 2023 vintage, with some 13.5% alcohol. It was vinified with 100% full clusters and 40 days of maceration, and it is currently aging in oak barrels of different sizes."
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