R. LÓPEZ DE HEREDIA RIOJA VIÑA TONDONIA RESERVA

 

R. LÓPEZ DE HEREDIA RIOJA VIÑA TONDONIA RESERVA 2005

Sure, the thought of drinking a 13-year-old wine is appealing, however cellaring a bottle that long presents challenges. Rioja Reserva overcomes them superbly. Fermentation for this elegant, advanced wine takes place in massive oak vats, before six more years of oak maturation before bottling. It drinks and smells implausibly contemporary, with fruity and floral flavors complemented by semi-sweet chocolate and tea leaf. A wide out there wine with over ten years’ bottle age isn’t ordinarily this simple to come back by, particularly one that tastes this sensible however prices (relatively) very little.

For 143 years, four generations of the López American state Heredia family have devoted themselves to manufacturing exceptional and distinctive wines. Masterpieces that have achieved that that the founding father of the corporate, Rafael López American state Heredia y Landeta, outlined within the late nineteenth century because the "Supreme Rioja".

Vineyard care, a scrupulous choice of grapes, ageing in oak barrels within the heart of deep underground galleries, and also the later ageing in bottles, all contribute to creating these illustrious wines with their exceptional bouquet