Alcohol: 13 %
Grape(s): 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha, 5% Graciano, 5% Mazuelo
Location: Viña Tondonia, Haro, Rioja Alta, Spain
Tasting Notes: Pale ruby with a brick rim. Dried red cherry, orange peel, tobacco, leather and sweet spice, with the vanilla and dill lift of long American oak ageing. Silky and fully resolved on the palate, with fine tannins and a long savoury finish.
Notes: From the 100-hectare Viña Tondonia estate on the banks of the Ebro, fermented in large oak vats and aged six years in American oak barrels, then fined with egg white and bottled without filtration. Released only when the family considers it ready.
Food Pairing: Roast lamb, braised oxtail, jamón ibérico, aged Manchego.
Winery Story: R. López de Heredia, founded in 1877, is the last of the great traditional Rioja houses and still makes wine the old way: own cooperage, long barrel ageing and decades of bottle age before release.
