2023 Envínate Doad Lousas
The Wine Advocate
RP 95+
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $55
Drink Date: 2025 - 2032 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The bottled 2023 Doad Lousas is primary, even a little grapey, undeveloped and fine-boned with a fine-grained texture. This is a village red from Doade, but as they are not in the appellation, they cannot use the name on the label. This is a Mencía-based blend with 10% other red and white varieties, mostly from vines on gneiss soils. It fermented with foot-trodden full clusters in plastic bins and matured in neutral 228-, 350- and 500-liter barrels. This has more ripeness and 13.3% alcohol, and the wine is a little rounder but equally balanced and elegant. This fermented and matured without any added sulfur and only a little was used at bottling. 5,030 bottles and 35 magnums produced. It was bottled in November 2024.
Published: Jul 25, 2025
2023 Envínate Lousas Seoane
The Wine Advocate
RP 98
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $100
Drink Date: 2025 - 2033 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The 2023 Lousas Seoane has an intoxicating floral nose and seems to close in the glass. It's very young and tender, perfumed and primary. I think the field blend of red and white varieties brings nuance, perfume and detail (and possibly freshness too). It has pungent flavors and doesn't lack ripeness at 13.55% alcohol; this is the ripest of the single vineyards, a south/southwest-acing slope harvested the sixth of September. Like the rest of the single-vineyard wines, it was vinified with full clusters and indigenous yeasts, foot trodden in plastic bins, pressed with a vertical press and matured in neutral 228-, 400- and 500-liter barrels, including malolactic and without any added sulfur until bottling. This beauty is pure perfume. 1,960 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2024.
Published: Jul 25, 2025
2023 Envínate Lousas Camiño Novo
The Wine Advocate
RP 99
Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez
Release Price: $100
Drink Date: 2025 - 2035 ⇒飲み頃に入っています
The nose of the 2023 Lousas Camiño Novo has all the flowers, wild herbs and red berries and is as intoxicating, perfumed, showy and nuanced as the Seoane and Rosende but with a flinty and smoky note and a step up in nuance, complexity and depth, which puts it in a different category level. The palate is seamless and solid, with fine-grained tannins and great precision and length, very clean and focused. It even has some stony austerity on the palate. This comes from an 80+-year-old plot at 350 to 450 meters above sea level and a south exposition planted with 85% Mencía, 12% Alicante Bouschet and 3% other varieties on gneiss soils, harvested the 7th of September. It fermented with 100% foot-trodden full clusters with 25 days of maceration and matured in neutral 228- and 500-liter oak barrels for one year. It comes in at 12.8% alcohol and perfect balance. This has to be the finest Camiño Novo and their finest wine from the region so far. Bravo! 1,560 bottles produced. It was bottled the 14th of November 2024.
Published: Jul 25, 2025