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| "This is one of the most exciting new projects in Spain."
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate |
| | | | | "Envínate (which translates as 'wine yourself') is the brainchild of 4 friends, winemakers Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Martínez. This gang of 4 formed back in 2005 while studying enology at the Universidad Miguel Hernández in Alicante. Upon graduation, they formed a winemaking consultancy which evolved into Envínate, a project that focuses on exploring distinctive parcels mainly in the Atlantic-inflected regions of Ribeira Sacra and the Canary Islands.
Their collective aim is to make profoundly pure and authentic wines that express the terruño of each parcel in a clear and concise manner. To this end, no chemicals are used in any of the Envínate vineyards, all parcels are picked by hand, the grapes are foot-trodden, and the wines are fermented exclusively with wild yeasts, with a varying proportion of whole grape clusters included. For aging, the wines are raised in old barrels and concrete, and sulfur is only added at bottling, if needed. The results are some of the most exciting and honest wines being produced in Spain today."
José Pastor
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| | | "Lousa is the name for the slate soil that predominates in the Ribeira do Sil and Amandi subzones of the Ribeira Sacra region.
The slate serves a great purpose - heating up during the daytime sun to help the grapes ripen, as well as imparting the minerality and intensely floral and spicy aromatics that are the trademarks of the Ribeira Sacra region’s wines.
Aldea means 'village' in the Galician (Gallego) dialect. In addition to focusing on single parcel wines, Envínate produces village wines in each region where they work. For this village wine, the Mencía and other co-planted grapes were hand-harvested, fermented 100% whole cluster with wild yeasts in open-top tubs with 25-40 days of maceration (except Sousón, which sees only 7 days) then raised in used 300- and 400-Liter French oak for 11 months with no racking. A touch of SO2 is added at bottling, and the finished wine sees no fining or filtration."
José Pastor
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| | "This has to be one of the better values in Spain."
Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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| | | | Produced from an assemblage of minimum-60-year-old plots in the Ribeira Sacra; the wine is 90-95% Mencía with other co-planted varieties blended in, including Trousseau (aka Merenzao), Alvarelhão (aka Brancellao), Caíño Tinto, Sezão (aka Sousón), Juan García (aka Mouratón), and Alicante Bouschet (aka Garnacha Tintorera); these vines are grown on steep slopes composed of slate and are between 400 and 600 meters elevation. |
| ▪ "The sample of the 2022 Lousas Viñas de Aldea was in stainless steel, blended and sulfured and waiting to be bottled in a couple of months. Most 2022s are more immediate than the 2021s, and this is floral, perfumed, and expressive, with a juicy and round palate.
They now have more vineyards in general, so they compensated the lower yields with more land under vine. The 2022s have turned out fresher and cooler than what the conditions of the year pointed out."
93-94 Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
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