Envinate - Rosende Lousas Ribeira Sacra 2022 (750ml)
Wine Advocate: 95-96 Points
The 2022 Rosende Lousas is the second vintage of the new village wine from Rosende the only zone in Ribeira Sacra where they have granite soils. The wine is superb more reductive and austere than the majority of 2022s closer to the style of the 2021s. This is a rocky 2022 very soil driven long and textured sharper very interesting. They expect to fill some 3300 bottles in November 2023. 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. Published: Nov 16 2023
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