2001 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (653) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  5/12/2024 - Gunakadeit Likes this wine: 92 Points

  Needs a lot of air right now.

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  4/18/2024 - Geaux Tigers wrote: 92 Points

  Vanilla bean crème, unripe cherry, dill, earth/barnyard notes, herbal notes. Old school rioja, and dare I say this can go many years or needed more air. I probably underestimated the amount of air (2hrs) this could take.
  
  Rioja aficionados will appreciate it for what it is…others, maybe not so much.

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  4/6/2024 - WST Likes this wine:

  Charity Wine Pairings for Hospice House Auction winners; 4/6/2024-4/7/2024 (Bellingham): Our nightcap or digestif. One of our guests wanted to try a rioja. Tobacco, sour cherry and dark berries, smokey leather, moist earth. While I think it's a great wine, it probably suffered by following a glass of port. Still, I think its best days are ahead. I'll never turn down a LdH Tondonia or Bosconia, Reserva or GR.

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  4/1/2024 - lolo66 wrote: 95 Points

  After 15 minutes this was singing. This has been sleeping for 15 years in my wine fridge and showed beautifully. That subtle spur cherry with earth tones and hints of tobacco make this a beautifully balanced wine

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  3/24/2024 - Mleh Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Astonishingly for a 23 year old wine this was not even close to ready. Super sour and oaky. This dissipated into something resembling balance after eight, that’s right, EIGHT hours in the decanter. At which point it was really quite nice. Red fruit, tobacco, even a little dark chocolate. I know Tondonia can have significant bottle variation but I won’t be opening my next 2001 for several years at least.

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