2007 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (250) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/26/2024 - dmartin12358 wrote:

  This wine is drinking much better now, doesn't need much decanting.

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  4/23/2024 - dmartin12358 wrote:

  Read somewhere that it needed 9 hrs decanting, not so, pretty approachable with cold cuts 'n cheese 'n fruit 'n bread. Turning brown around the edges of the wine glass, though.

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  4/9/2024 - pinoteer Likes this wine: 90 Points

  This bottled showed some mature fruit flavors, in addition to fresh fruits. Don't know whether this is bottle variation or a sign that these 375's are aging quickly. Still, a nice bottle of wine.

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  4/6/2024 - B&PBaker Does not like this wine: 85 Points

  Took an hour after decanting before it showed any life at all. OK but nothing special or memorable at all. Drinkable, but...
  Too light for me.

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  3/31/2024 - cvst Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Checked in on this one. Way too early but I was curious how this is developing. It needed quite some time to wake up but then started already to deliver. Beautiful cedar perfumed nose with cherry and juniper. On the palate pronounced cherry, plum, forest berries, coconut, sous bois, rooibos tea, new leather and ore-like minerals. Good tension at this stage, deep and sappy but also with elegance. With good persistence and potential. Will try to hold off for some years and leave a few bottles for a long time

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