Envinate, Lousas Vinas De Aldea, 2024

The village-level entry into one of Spain's most thrilling project lineups. Envínate ('Wine yourself') is a four-winemaker collective — Roberto Santana, Alfonso Torrente, Laura Ramos, and José Ángel Martínez — who met at university and now make some of the country's most exciting wines across Ribeira Sacra, the Canary Islands, and Almansa. The Lousas series comes from the terraced slate slopes above the Sil river. This village cuvée draws from minimum 60-year-old plots, planted at 400-600 meters on the pure slate ('lousa') soils that give the line its name. Mencía-dominant with old-vine field-blend varieties mixed in, fermented partly whole-cluster in open-top tanks, then aged in neutral oak and concrete. The result captures everything that makes Ribeira Sacra exciting: floral lift, slate minerality, and weightless intensity.