2008 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Ready - at best (Drink 2016 - 2038)
Tim Atkin MW
97/100
Product: 20081152566

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2008 Viña Tondonia Tinto, Reserva, Bodegas R. López de Heredia, Rioja, Spain

Description

This exquisite and superb-value wine has a fine, elegant nose of fresh red-cherry fruit and sweet spice, and a perfumed bouquet with hints of pot pourri, raspberry tea and red liquorice. The acidity – one of López de Heredia’s trademarks – is astonishing, as is its complexity and freshness, while the finish is enduring, mouthcoating and intense.

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Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2008
Maturity Ready - at best (2016 - 2038)
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Bodegas R. López de Heredia

Critics reviews

Tim Atkin MW 97/100

Tondonia's reds have been on an upward curve recently and are now at the same level as the bodega's world-class whites. This is a fine, elegant, savoury, low-alcohol blend of Tempranillo with 20% Garnacha and 5% each of Mazuelo and Graciano, combining summer berry fruit, racy acidity, granular tannins and an earthy, balsamic undertone. Good now, but this will develop further in bottle.

Drink 2020 - 2028

Tim Atkin MW, Tim Atkin.com (Jan 2020)

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
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Bodegas R. Lopez de Heredia

Bodegas López de Heredia (LDH) is one of the wine world’s great wine treasures. Founded in 1877 by Don Rafael López de Heredia y Landeta, it remains safely in family hands to this day.
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