Envinate Lousas Doad 2023

93-96  pts Wine AdvocateDate: 2025 - 2032The 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; they still expect to be able to produce around 5,000 bottles that should be filled in November 2024. - Reviewed by: Luis Gutiérrez  89% Mencía, 10% other varieties (Garnacha Tintorera, Brancellao, Merenzao, Grao Negro, etc) I tasted the bottled 2022s and barrel samples from 2023 from Envínate in Ribeira Sacra—but the wines are still sold without appellation of origin—two very different years in the zone. 2022 was very warm and dry, and 2023 was a very rainy year, a vintage like yesteryear wit