RP 96

The intoxicating 2022 Lousas Parcela Seoane comes from a specific plot in the village of Doade, old vines planted in the 1930 on gneiss and quartz. It has the expressive nose of the zone - serious and mineral - but it's perfumed too. It has the forward and extroverted character of 2022 and is a little riper and rounder, with a note of blood orange and the faint volatility that lifts up the nose. There's a lot of energy here. 2,000 bottles were filled in November 2023.

I tasted the bottled 2022s and barrel samples from 2023 from Envinate in Ribeira Sacra - but the wines are still sold without appellation of origin - two very different years in the zone. 2022 was very warm and dry, and 2023 was a very rainy year, a vintage like yesteryear with some peaks of heat at the end of August, which made them start earlier. Even though they thinned the crop, it was the most generous yield ever, and the wines have more fluidity and less concentration than 2022, similar to 2021 or 2016. 2022 was a little riper, but the wines kept the balance and were quite immediate from very early on. In 2022, there was no Camino Novo because of hail. In 2023, they will produce a total of 47,000 bottles, their largest year so far.