2019 Envinate Ribeira Sacra Lousas Viña de Aldea

Community Tasting Notes (62) Avg Score: 90.7 points

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  5/7/2024 - Wine Canuck wrote: 93 Points

  This pours medium ruby in the glass. Aromatically lovely on opening but boy is this singing after 24 hours of air. Aromatics are intense and complex showing dark pomegranate, juicy dark cherry, cinnamon, musky animal fur, peonies, rose petals, white pepper, botanicals, and leather. The palate is also wonderful entering on dark pomegranate. Tannin is medium minus with medium plus acid. The finish closes harmoniously on leather, smoke, and pomegranite molasses. Medium plus in length. All in all this is just a wonderful wine that keeps improving. Bumping it up one point and I'm not sure it's done. Absolutely love the fresh and vibrant fruit, structure, drinkability, and complexity of this wine. Wish I had more, but now down to three bottles. Stylistically I think this is somewhere between Northern Rhone Syrah and cool climate Caliornia Pinot Noir.

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  2/29/2024 - Styrk wrote: 90 Points

  Probably better a year or two younger. Still good, but—at least my bottle—I felt like I was drinking leftovers of a delicious bottle on the second day.

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  1/20/2024 - Pete Moss Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Cherry, orange peel, and cranberry waft from the glass. Soft and full of fruit it lingers on the palate for a long time. Stuck the cork back in and drank the 2nd half on day two and it was even better. Beautiful wine. Drink or hold - but hard to resist as it is so nice.

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  1/5/2024 - WilliamMP Likes this wine: 92 Points

  92+ My first bottle of a selection of Envinate wines I bought a few years ago, when they were all the rage. I managed to keep my hands off them until I felt that they were actually ready, and not get carried away by the hype!
  
  Sadly, I drank it without making any notes. I remember a wine of complexity, purity and balance, that was just getting into its stride. Mencia is a special variety.

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  10/19/2023 - ManuKey wrote: flawed

  Bouchonné / corked.

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