Envina - Lousas Vinos Atlanticos Doad 2022
Envina Description
89% Mencía, 10% other varieties (Garnacha Tintorera, Brancellao, Merenzao, Grao Negro, etc).From several vineyards in the town of Doade that range in age from 23-65 years. The lower vineyards are mainly schist, giving way to gneiss and quartz in the upper parts. The grapes were harvested by hand and fermented whole- cluster in open-top fermenters with 25-30 days of skin contact before pressing with a vertical press into a mix of 500, 350, and 228 liter used French oak barrels to finish and rest for a year.
Food Pairings: Gamey Meats, Roast White Meats, Braised Things, Steak!
Characteristics: Icon, Red Fruit, Dressed to Impress, Big Power
Wine Advocate: 94-95 Points
The 2022 Doad Lousas is the second vintage of the village red. It comes from gneiss and schist soils from the traditional zone of the Sil and is warmer and riper a textbook example of ripe Mencía fruit an earlier zone with juicy wines. As with the rest of the 2022s I tasted the wine after it had been blended and the sulfur adjusted waiting in stainless steel to be bottled in a couple of months. It has the textbook floral and perfumed nose quite fruit-driven juicy and tasty with some fine tannins that need a bit of time in bottle to get polished. They expect to fill some 3300 bottles from a number of barrels of different sizes. The wines from Envínate one of the most dynamic projects in Spain are increasingly sought after in international markets. So from now on I will start tasting the wines every 12 months giving a preview of the unbottled wines from the last harvest and the bottled ones in the market. From Ribeira Sacra it's the bottled 2021s and the 2022s in barrel two very different harvests. There are two new village wines from 2021 a vintage with good yields again. 2021 is a cool classical vintage that shows quite transparently the character of the places while the 2022s are a little rounder and more immediate even if they ended up being much fresher than initially expected. 2020 was an earlier harvest (2017 was the earliest ever). In 2022 they started early and in 2023 they started early too but then it was a long harvest because they had to stop because of the rain.
