Envinate Lousas Viñas de Aldea 2021Region: Galicia, Spain Appellation: Ribeira Sacra Color Style: Red Wine Grapes: Mencia Aldea means village in Gallego; thus, this is Envnates village wine, produced from a combination of minimum 60 year old plots located in the ancient vineyard region of Ribeira Sacra. This cuvee is made up of 90 95% Menca with other co planted varietals blended in. The native vines are grown on steep slopes made of slate and sit in between 400 600 meters elevation.

Jérôme Bourgeois-Diaz is a 4th generation vigneron who has been making some of the most compelling Champagne in Crouttes-sur-Marne

Appellation: Willamette Valley

Everything is worked by hand and with a winch

like the Beaujolais itself

Up the ladder the “Mineral” is the obvious revelation: a blend of younger vines from both of the Grand Cru sites

000 bottles each year

France Appellation: Beaujolais

If you were blind tasting it you would call this old school Northern Rhône

The grapes for this wine are fully de-stemmed and is macerated for a full moon cycle and then vilified and aged in sandstone jars for 9 months

There is a whiff of exotic spice sitting atop the ripe aromas of black raspberry coulis

the same hard limestone as is found throughout Burgundy

No added yeasts