Envínate Lousas Ribeira Sacra 2023

Envínate Lousas Ribeira Sacra 2023Envnate is Laura, Jose, Roberto, and Alfonso, friends from university, who are obsessed with Spains ancient, Atlantic battered terroirs. Their mission is simple: find a forgotten parcel of vines, and let it speak for itself. This is their village wine from Ribeira Sacra, a place so steep the slate soil is called Lousa, a rock that heats by day and breathes a cool, floral, stony energy into the grapes by night. Its a wild field blend of Menca,

Good acidity

two winds that do a dance over the land

Bright summer berries on the palate with this cool graphite fling running through it

A Montsant vin de soif

Raphael and Adéline's son

He worked with his uncle from 1984 to 1991

It drinks more like a Meursault than a typical Savigny-lès-Beaune

and 12% Pinot Gris

and fermented slowly with native yeasts in concrete

The region is exposed to the sea to the west and the mountains to the east

If SP68 Bianco is a manifesto of texture and light

but the resistance was real