1991 R. López de Heredia Rioja Blanco Gran Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (131) Avg Score: 92.6 points

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  3/8/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 97 Points

  Spectacular nose with citrus and orange zest, lemon, minerals, some vanilla, and hay. It keeps changing in the glass and shows a lot of complexity. Surprisingly high acidity on the palate with more lemon, apple, minerals, and maybe a hint of peach and stone fruit. Very long finish. Wow, what a wine! There's so much going on. Outstanding!

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  10/18/2022 - BillBell73 Likes this wine:

  Very light in color with little visual evidence of age or oxidation. A very subtle and elegant wine for the most part, but with a slightly funky, cheesy edge to the nose. Slightly waxy in texture with lemon curd, almonds, and sharp acidity providing balance. Excellent and seems very young- can’t wait to try with more age.

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  5/23/2022 - Goldstone Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Whites by more famous Red makers.....& vice versa. (Grill Room, Hong Kong Country Club, Shouson Hill, Hong Kong): My wine. Decanted for 4 hours than re-bottled 3 hours before serving, which was about right. Bright very light canary yellow colour. Same colour as the preceding Cinque Terra 2018…. looks very young. Muted nose and palate on opening…. it needs a long decant. On serving, the nose had developed a smooth white shoe cream character, fresh crushed almonds and high lemon-driven piano notes acidity. Palate is very crisp, lightly oxidative, very fresh and lifted, especially at cellar temperature. Tons of complexity and a real kick of deep resonance and reverberance on the finish that just grows and grows like rolling thunder. Helped by food, in this case French snails.

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  3/19/2022 - danseng wrote: 97 Points

  4 years since opening one and worth the wait. Incredible acid for a wine this age. Not nearly as oxidized as I had expected. Just a great wine. 2 more in the cellar and I’ll give them some more time to see where this wine can go.

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  3/13/2022 - Bandreas Likes this wine:

  Tasted with Jim Cahill and our wives at Black Salt: dark golden color, nose of acacia honey, bee's wax and quince.
  Mellow, aristocratic, yet lively with good underlying acidity. The wine was mouth-filling, complex with considerable breadth and depth.
  On par with the Bienvenues Bâtard-Montrachet from Leflaive tasted alongside. Everybody liked it,.

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