Quite a deep colour, certainly by Envinate’s standards. It looks healthy, like glossy crimson ink. Raise it your nose and then wow! Gorgeously sweet-scented black fruits amid layers of intricacy. Not so much spices as the bowl that spices had been kept in. Fleeting notes of earthy, dusty minerals and tree bark. Seamless and elegant on the palate. A mysterious and beguiling seducer. 13% alc. Only 2,000 bottles produced. Drink now-2029.

Press review:

The Wine Advocate: “The intoxicating 2022 Lousas Parcela Seoane comes from a specific plot in the village of Doade, old vines planted in the 1930s 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. Drink now-2034.” 96 points