Envinate Viñas de Aldea Lousas Tinto 2022

Lousa is the name for the slate soil that predominates in the Ribeira do Sil and Amandi
subzones of the Ribeira Sacra region. The slate serves a great purpose, heating up
during the daytime sun to help the grapes ripen, as well as imparting the minerality and
intensely floral and spicy aromatics that are the trademarks of the Ribeira Sacra region’s
wines. Aldea means “village” in the Galician dialect. In addition to focusing on single
parcel wines, Envínate produces village wines in each region where they work.
For their village wine, the Mencía and other co-planted grapes were hand-harvested,
fermented 1o0% whole cluster with wild yeasts in open top plastic tubs with 25-40 days
maceration (except Souson, which sees only 7 days), then raised in used 300 and 400
liter French oak for 11 months with no racking. A touch of SO2 is added only at bottling,
and the finished wine sees no fining or filtration.