Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva 2001
190.50€ (Inc. VAT bot. 75 cl.) / Spain
López de Heredia Viña Tondonia
Rioja
Last 5 bottles. Immediate shipment
Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The 2001 Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva is the follow-up of the 1995. There is a sense of harmony and elegance, of nuance and subtleness that wasn't quite the same in the Bosconia, as comparing both wines is inevitable. They started picking the red grapes the 15th of October, and the last grapes were picked the 29th of October with good weather. The grapes ripened properly and thoroughly, and the wine has great balance for a long aging in bottle. This is 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacho and 5% each Graciano and Mazuelo that fermented in their 153-year-old oak vats with indigenous yeasts and matured in used barrels for 10 years. It has 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.4 and 6.4 grams of acidity (tartaric). The nose shows young (tasting it blind, you'd guess a 10-year old wine, not a 20-year-old wine!). It has a nose of sweet spices, underbrush and cigar ash, somewhat balsamic, bramble fruit with perfect ripeness, integrated and young but starting to show some tertiary complexity. The palate is velvety and medium-bodied, with fine-grained, chalky tannins denoting a limestone soil that brings finesse and texture and a sapid, tasty, almost salty finish. This is going to make a beautiful bottle of old Rioja in 30 years' time! 25,000 bottles produced. It was bottled after being fined with egg whites in July 2012.
Features
Type of wine
Pairings
Style
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Size
Appellation
Alcohol
12.5%
Grapes
Serving
Between 16ºC and 18ºC
Winemaking
Aged for 10 years in French oak barrels.
Description
Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva is a red wine made from classic varietals such as Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, and Mazuelo. This wine is produced by the Bodega López de Heredia Viña Tondonia in the D.O.Ca. La Rioja.
The grapes used to produce this wine come from the Viña Tondonia estate, an idyllic vineyard of more than 100 ha. planted between 1913 and 1914 measuring approximately 110 hectares located on the right bank of the Ebro River, at an altitude of approximately 438 to 489 metres.
The vineyard is located on soils ranging from alluvial to clay-limestone, with the presence of gravel and pebbles.
Winemaking
Viña Tondonia Reserva is made using a traditional vinification process. The grapes are harvested by hand at the optimum point of ripeness of the grapes. Once in the winery, the grapes go through a destemmer and the must ferments with the skins in large 240-hectolitre oak vats.
The wine is aged for 10 years in French oak barrels, which are racked twice a year. The wine matures and reaches the right point and is clarified with egg whites before being bottled unfiltered.
Taste
In the mouth it is tasty, round, smooth and evolved, with well-resolved tannins, good acidity, and with an extraordinary freshness, auguring its long life.
A wine in the style of the classics of the 50s and 60s.
Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva is a deep wine that has developed complexity and distinction with ageing. A red wine that will leave an unforgettable sensation in your mouth.
It is the perfect accompaniment to all types of meat or poultry, grilled fish and without strong seasoning.
And you, what are you waiting for to try this delicious wine?
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