Envinate Lousas Parcela Rosende Tinto 2023

96-98 pts Wine AdvocateThe 2023 Rosende Lousas, despite its youth, is showing superbly. This feels different, perhaps a little more Rhône-ish, with a meaty edge. It's beautifully textured and elegant, with more weight than the lighter 2022, more serious and with more depth and structure. It has 12.5% alcohol. There should be around 3,300 bottles of this. It should be bottled in November 2024. 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 with some peaks of heat at the end of August, which made them start earlier. Even though they thinned the crop, it was the most generous yield ever, and the wines have more fluidity and less concentration than 2022, similar to 2021 or 2016. 2022 was a little riper, but the wines kept the balance and were quite immediate from very