1987 R. López de Heredia Rioja Blanco Gran Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (46) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  12/8/2023 - SimonG wrote: 95 Points

  CRiBBS @ La T (La Trompette, London): A step up from previous bottle in 2017. Mid gold. Nicely rich nose, lanolin and beeswax. Rich, bone dry attack. Good weight. Round and rich whilst retain8 g line. A just lovely. Absolutely lovely. ***** Note that after a couple of hours this starts to freak a little, so don’t give it too much air.

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  12/7/2022 - decaturwinedude wrote: flawed

  A Good Tuesday, Vol VIII: Lopez de Heredia and Friends: Sadly corked. Horribly. Like, look up corked wine in the dictionary and this should be pictured.

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  7/28/2020 - DK Amateur Likes this wine:

  A perfect bottle, walking on the tightrope between apple-like oxidation and aged salty white wine with intricate aromas of peach, brown dust, old cupboards, varnish, caramel, bergamot, and consommé. Perfectly coherent with good if not very long aftertaste, good acidity.

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  1/12/2020 - acidqueen wrote: 91 Points

  Medium gold color. Surprisingly light bodied for a 33 year old wine. Lightly oxidative, but only slightly. Mild waxiness, lanolin and almond but also rather light on all these flavors. Not as much depth as expected. Very fresh. We drank this with a browned garlic Basque style monkfish and the medium body and style went well with this wine.

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  3/31/2019 - Janstan Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Almond, apricot, citrus. Went well with chicken marsala

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