Envinate Lousas Vinas de Aldea Tinto 2023

94-96 pts Wine AdvocateDrink Date: 2025 - 2032I tasted a very promising barrel sample of the 2023 Lousas Viñas de Aldea, cropped from a more Atlantic, cooler and rainier year (especially when compared with the super warm and dry 2022). Right now, it's super primary (the blend will have some 40% to 45% wine from concrete), and they are slowly introducing larger oak foudres (3,000 liters) and lowering the impact of the oak in the wine. This has very good freshness, purity and elegance, reminiscent of past vintages like 2021 or 2016. It has terrific balance. There will be around 32,000 bottles that should be filled in November 2024.Reviewed by: Luis GutiérrezI 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 sta