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L\u00f3pez de Heredia, who make Tondonia, is one of the classic old Rioja houses. They are super-traditional, and make fabulously old fashioned and brilliantly ageable wines. They are not for modernists: winemaking here is quite oxidative with extended ageing in oak before release. It’s not quite up to Musar levels, but these wines are a bit of an acquired taste. Once you get a taste for them, however, you are smitten. It’s wonderful how wines that are a technician’s nightmare are some of the most compelling and fine of all. It helps to keep us humble, I guess.<\/p>\n
I was really surprised to see this wine in the Co-operative, rubbing shoulders with inexpensive commercial bottlings. Good for the Co-op, listing some geek bait like this, although I am surprised that FMV, the UK agents, sold this to them: it is normally found in independents and it is normally more expensive (Berry Bros & Rudd, who own FMV, are selling this for \u00a329.99).<\/p>\n
Vi\u00f1a Tondonia Reserva 2002 Rioja, Spain<\/strong> L\u00f3pez de Heredia, who make Tondonia, is one of the classic old Rioja houses. They are super-traditional, and make fabulously old fashioned and brilliantly ageable wines. They are not for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,40],"tags":[402,371],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rioja","category-spain","tag-rioja","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10932,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wineanorak.com:\/wineblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n13% alcohol. 6 Years in oak. Very appealing young Tondonia, this, with fresh, bright red cherry and berry fruit, some grippy structure, and a savoury personality, kept fresh with high acidity. There are hints of vanilla and spice, with a tight core of fruit and complex notes of tea, earth and minerals. It\u2019s not the greatest vintage of Tondonia, but this is a really lovely wine and it will probably age beautifully, when it will merit a higher score. 92\/100 (\u00a319.99 Co-op)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"