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2018 Envinate Ribeira Sacra Lousas Vina de Aldea #126422872

750ml
12x 750ml

24+ In Stock

24+ In Stock

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Based on 43 reviews on Cellartracker.com

Reviews 94 points Wine Advocate "They only used a little sulfur at bottling time. The backbone comes from Ribeiras del Sil, a zone that delivers vertical wines and adds freshness. It's perfumed with notes of violets, expressive and open, with lots of fruit, a spicy twist and the complexity of mixing different origins and soils. The palate is pungent and more powerful than it seems, with very fine minerality. Incredible for the price. 18,000 bottles and 205 magnums produced. It was bottled in December 2019. (LG)" 93 points John Gilman "The 2018 Lousas Vinas de Aldea from Envinate is made from several different vineyards, all of at least sixty years of age. They are planted with ninety to ninety-five percent Mencia, but as these are old vineyards, there are a few other varieties co-planted here. The grapes are foot-trodden, fermented with indigenous yeasts and includes forty percent whole clusters in 2018, with the wine raised for its customary year in the cellar in old oak casks. The bouquet here is beautiful, offering up a black fruity blend of cassis, graphite, lovely minerality, a hint of the pomegranate to come, tree bark and a smoky topnote. On the palate the wine is deep, full-bodied, focused and complex, with a superb core of fruit, great mineral drive, ripe, well-integrated tannins and outstanding length and grip on the very elegant finish. This is drinkable today, but I would give it three to five years in the cellar to allow its secondary layers to start to emerge. Fine, fine juice. (JG)"

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About Envinate

Since their founding in 2005, the wines of Envinate have repeatedly been acclaimed as some of the most exciting in the world. There is an incredible sense of discovery within each bottle, and it remains shocking how, even after two decades, these wines continue to be so vibrant, so nakedly transparent to the wild places where the grapes grow, and so undeniably revelatory. They’ve built their reputation on ferreting out the distinctive parcels of Atlantic Spain, both in Galicia, as well as in the Canary Islands, and have helped turn these outlying and once-obscure regions into must-have bottlings essential for any serious wine lover.

Envinate is the brainchild of four winemaker friends, driven to explore the breath of Spanish viticultural history, from Ribeira Sacra to Extremadura. The Tenerife wines are particularly anachronistic, with a seemingly endless list of varieties and truly herculean efforts needed in the vineyards. All work is done by hand, an absolute necessity for these plots of high elevation grapes scattered across the inclines of a 12,000 foot volcano, where slopes can be above 60 degrees. Depending on the parcel, vines may be ungrafted, untrained or braided close to the ground in the traditional cordon trenzado, but no chemicals are used, as befitting an island where half the land is designated as a nature preserve.

Luis Gutierrez of the Wine Advocate has been enthralled by Envinate for several years and recently awarded the 2020 Taganan Parcela Margalagua 99 Points - an impressive feat! He’s highlighted their ageability, quality, and value, noting they are "cheaper than most of the wines that deliver this quality" and are "an example of what can be achieved in the region with the right grapes and vinification."

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