2023 Envinate Lousas Parcela Camino Novo Tinto

98 pts
Envinate |Ribeira Sacra |Mencia
Old-vine Mencía from a revered Ribeira Sacra parcel, combining purity, power and haunting mineral depth in one of Envínate’s greatest wines to date.

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Camiño Novo is one of the crown jewels in Envínate’s Ribeira Sacra lineup – a tiny, amphitheatre-like parcel in Amandi with 70-year-old vines rooted deep into fractured slate. Mostly Mencía, with a scattering of other native varieties, this vineyard produces wines of rare precision and depth, and the 2023 is already being talked about as one of the finest yet.

Fermented with whole clusters and left on skins for nearly a month before resting in neutral barrels, it’s a wine that marries purity with power. The aromatics are haunting – red and black fruits, wild herbs, florals, a flicker of spice – while the palate shows both grace and tension, carried by that signature mineral line the slate soils impart. The tannins are fine, almost chalky, and the length feels endless.

Produced in tiny quantities, this is serious, world-class Ribeira Sacra – a benchmark wine from one of Spain’s most exciting producers. Collectors take note.

98 points - "They think of 2021 as a 'classical' vintage in Ribeira Sacra, and the 2021 Lousas Parcela Camiño Novo, a field blend of 85% Mencía, 12% Alicante Bouschet and the rest a mixture of Brancellao, Merenzao, Grao Negro, etc., shows that classical profile, with good ripeness, 13.21% alcohol, a juicy mouthfeel and nice balance. The soils are gneiss and schist with more clay than other vineyards and therefore the source for rounder wines. It fermented with 100% full clusters and matured in neutral 228- and 500-liter barrels. This is super elegant and nuanced, the most elegant and complete wine today, with energy and light, rose petals and herbs, powerful and elegant in a rare combination, going back to the finest expression of this vineyard. It's expressive, open and complex, head and shoulders above the others today. 1,550 bottles were filled in November 2022. They had hail in 2022, so this wine was not produced that year." - Luis Gutiérrez (The Wine Advocate)

Price Bracket $101 and Above
Type Red
Body Medium Bodied
Variety Mencia
Country Spain
Region Ribeira Sacra
Reviewed By The Wine Advocate
Critic Score 98
Size 750ml
Vintage 2023
Closure Cork

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