2021 Envinate Ribeira Sacra Lousas Parcela Doad

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  4/16/2024 - Xavier Auerbach wrote: 92 Points

  A new village red at Envinate. A blend of 89% Mencia with Brancellão, Merenzão, Grao Negro, and Garnacha Tintorera (Alicante Bouschet) among others, gneiss, schist and quartz soils, whole cluster fermentation, foot trodden, fermented with indigenous yeasts in open vats, matured in neutral French oak barrels of different sizes, bottled November 2022, 12.5% ABV. The result is a delightfully fruit-driven, floral wine, open and attractive, creamy strawberries and a touch of white pepper, peaches and roses, fragrant and elegant, a seamless and silky texture, transparent and precise, cool minerality, firm but finely grained tannins, and a flowing finish with very good resonance and length. Toute en finesse, with the exception of the tannins which are a bit earthy and borderline austere. Time may soften the tannins, but I don't think that this will ever be more delicious than it is today.

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  1/19/2024 - KeithAkers wrote: 92 Points

  Rieslings and Ribeira Sacras (Magna Kusina, Portland OR): The nose is lifted and perfumed with white pepper, red cherries, spice notes, strawberries, fresh herbs, licorice, violets, raspberries, and some earth notes. There is good depth with this showing off a bit of a savory side that keeps me coming back. The Medium bodied feel is elegant and balanced with crisp, medium+ acidity and silky, medium+ tannins. The structure has some youth, but it doesn't overwhelm. This is an expressive and savory Ribeira Sacra that really scratches some itches. I have no clue what this may turn into with age, but there is certainly room to grow and develop.

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  10/9/2023 - Rote Kappelle Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Now this is a wine for those who love Stoner Rock. I am going to put on Hawkwind in the left channel ('Urban Guerilla' or 'Space is Deep') and Sea of Green in the right ('Change With Me'), cranked right up.
  
  This wine is the original green room, man. As I bungee jump into the massive pile of tomato stalks and wet grass and earth singing about being a 'stratospheric jerk off' (apologies to Monster Magnet) I have no need to roll a spliff, for I am rolling in the green, dude.
  
  Usually loads of green characters will give me a bad trip (cue Hawkwind's 'Paranoia'), but for some reason this wine works. The acid is less sour than some of this maker's 2021's and the slightly under ripe Raspberry and Cranberry reverse Monster Magnet's 'I will deny you, baby' line ('Negasonic Teenage Warhead').
  
  This wine creates a certain 'Nyaw!' and that means Michael Moorcock and the Deep Fix, with their song 'Octopus' featuring the immortal opening line 'Feel the motion of the sex machine' (Burn Before Reading, Coen Bros, did you plagiarize just a little?). Better still the song features a killer riff and it has all my favourite rock elements - mid-tempo so musicians can actually shine, plenty of distortion on the guitars, pounding drums and a great lead break to close out the song with that crucial element, wah-wah.
  
  In this case, I think Snowy White (Thin Lizzy's underrated 'Renegades', the flatulent superannuation version of Pink Floyd with fat Dave and then, latterly, the slightly psycho but always interesting Roger Waters) has the gate slightly open on the Cry Baby, so it isn't the full wah-wah sound but you get that slightly echoing sound where every note has a 'wow' sound (and yes, maybe it is just some boring reverb instead but it is wah that I want and wah that I shall get damn you all). The finish of this wine and its energy have their echo in this splendid song's outro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Jtfrtos6c&list=PLFJoVFNa8-otphOm1RorUpvnBwxPU2TR-&index=3
  
  I would be careful about cellaring this wine. The somewhat black tea tannins, which are not that intrusive through most of the dance with this bottle do start to get a slightly bitter and mean streak to them after a while - definite Black Sabbath lyrics about women stuff.
  
  Before the Sabbath fans send the German nihilists from Big Labowski to drop a cranky stoat into my bath, let me finish with a positive reference to BlaSab - overall, the impression this wine gives, if we talk Black Sabbath is 'Sign of the Southern Cross'. Now that is a riff worth a spliff.

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  10/4/2023 - benjamin96 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Super bon et deja ouvert. Plein de fruit, climat de bord de mer, a boire sur 5 ans. Plaisir immediat

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  5/4/2023 - whits Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Fresh and perfumed nose with hints of black tea over the obvious red cherry and raspberry smells, masculine, medium bodied, flavors of plum, cactus, mineral and dried cranberry, complex, delicious and ready to go now, cellar time for this is within 10 years or so, really special and worthy of a nice meal

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