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The nose of the 2023 Lousas Camiño Novo has all the flowers, wild herbs and red berries and is as intoxicating, perfumed, showy and nuanced as the Seoane and Rosende but with a flinty and smoky note and a step up in nuance, complexity and depth, which puts it in a different category level. The palate is seamless and solid, with fine-grained tannins and great precision and length, very clean and focused. It even has some stony austerity on the palate. This comes from an 80+-year-old plot at 350 to 450 meters above sea level and a south exposition planted with 85% Mencía, 12% Alicante Bouschet and 3% other varieties on gneiss soils, harvested the 7th of September. It fermented with 100% foot-trodden full clusters with 25 days of maceration and matured in neutral 228- and 500-liter oak barrels for one year. It comes in at 12.8% alcohol and perfect balance. This has to be the finest Camiño Novo and their finest wine from the region so far. Bravo! 1,560 bottles produced. It was bottled the 14th of November 2024." 99pts Luis Gutiérrez The Wine Advocate July 2025
"The bottled 2023s from Envínate are from Ribeira Sacra, but sadly, they are sold without appellation of origin. These wines are stunning, possibly their finest collection to date. There is a jump in perfume, complexity and elegance in Seoane, Rosende and Camiño Novo, wines that are a true bargain. The problem is finding them...
2023 was a vintage like in the past, with a rainy winter and normal dates for sprouting, and it was all nice and textbook until June, which was very rainy, with 11 days of non-stop rain, which made things complicated in the vineyards. July and August were dry, as always, until a heat wave at the end of August, with peaks of 41 degrees Celsius and lows of no less than 22 degrees Celsius. They started harvesting at the end of August, and it rained quite a lot during September, so they had to stop the harvest a number of times. So, how are the wines? Despite the difficulties, the wines are floral, fragrant and fine-boned. Apparently, the warmer zones suffered, so they probably did a lot of sorting and discarding. The wines are amazing." Luis Gutiérrez The Wine Advocate
