Envinate Lousas Parcela Rosende Tinto 2022

Envinate Lousas Parcela Rosende Tinto 2022

Ribera Sacra SKU: PROOFenvinateROSENDE

Envinate Lousas Parcela Rosende Tinto 2022

Ribera Sacra SKU: PROOFenvinateROSENDE
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Lousas Parcela Rosende Tinto 2022 95-96WA

85% Mencía, 15% other varieties (Garnacha Tintorera, Brancellao, Merenzao, Grao Negro, etc).

From 28-60-year-old vines in the Rosende area on light, sandy decomposed granite soils interspersed with feldspar crystals. Alfonso notes that the soils here recall St. Joseph and Cornas in the northern Rhône. The grapes were harvested by hand and fermented wholecluster in an open-top 4,200L tank. Maceration lasted roughly 35 days. The wine then completed fermentation and was transferred to one 2,000L foudre and some 228L barrels of used French Oak to rest for a year.

95-96 pts Wine Advocate: 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 3,300 bottles in November 2023.

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