A brand new addition to Envínate's Ribeira Sacra range, representing the 'Doade' area, which is home to their two most sought after wines: Camino Novo and Seoane. ‘Doade’ is a protected village appellation in Ribeira Sacra now, after many years attempting to have it accepted and protected. This bottling from Envinate is from the village, but because they don't submit their wines for appellation approval, they cannot use the full name of the village, so they shortened it to ‘Doad’. Fans of bureaucracy will have enjoyed that anecdote, but I suspect the rest of you are nodding off, so let’s get back to the wine. Soils here are mostly schist, with quartz and gneiss and the main grape, as so often in Ribeira Sacra, is Mencia. It’s quite dark and tight and weightier in comparison to its peers and will benefit from another year or two in the cellar, similar in structure to a Morgon or a Cote de Brouilly Cru. 12.5% alc. Drink 2024-2032.

Organically farmed
Vegan-friendly

Press review:

The Wine Advocate: “The 2022 Doad is the second vintage of the village red. It comes from gneiss and schist soils from the traditional zone of the Sil and is warmer and riper, a textbook example of ripe Mencía fruit, an earlier zone with juicy wines. It has the textbook floral and perfumed nose, quite fruit-driven, juicy and tasty, with some fine tannins that need a bit of time in bottle to get polished. Drink now-2029.” (94-95) points