“It would be impossible to find a person who wouldn’t like this wine.” -Keira Knightley

Only the second vintage of this exciting 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 juicy, a little floral, similar in structure to a silky Morgon or a Cote de Brouilly Cru, laced with a sense of glossy black pebbles. A pretty wine. Pretty amazing. 12.5% alc. Drink now-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

Keira Knightley (Noble Rot Magazine) on the 2021 vintage: “It would be impossible to find a person who wouldn’t like this wine. You can feel the spray from the Atlantic. It’s lightly tannic, has a faint smell of lychee, violet, blueberries, but with minerality. Wet stone, earthy. It lingers beautifully. You don’t want to drink it too quickly. It’s not complex, but it’s a beautiful thing. It’s not aloof, it’s easy to love. It’s a film shot by Roger Deakins. It doesn’t smack you round the face. It seduces you… and… oh dear… look… the bottle’s gone.”