2010 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (227) Avg Score: 91.5 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Neecies's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/17/2024 - Neecies Likes this wine:

  Vicki's. Straight from the bottle, fruit showing a lot more black than red right now with dusty earth and some baked tones. Not flawed, just not prepared to enter this world yet so it didn't come across with either Rioja or LdH typicity. Needs rest.

  5 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View Sebastian80's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/16/2024 - Sebastian80 Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Tasted blind in a flight of six Iberian wines.
  Dusty with some red and dark fruit on the nose. Modest. Fresh acidity.
  Feels like it’s in between phases. I would wait 5-10 years for this one because right now it’s a bit disappointing. Easy to pick as a Rioja.

  5 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (4)

• Options

  • View Jens DT's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/13/2024 - Jens DT Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Drak med Mussi.
  Flot farve. Alder. Duft efter kort tid. Sveske på fornuftig baggrundsmåde. Mørke bær. Dufter lidt Gevrey med alder.
  Smager som duft. Stadig god syre. God balance. Tannin på læberne. Køb gerne mere.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View lozatron's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/8/2024 - lozatron Likes this wine:

  On opening, lovely structure, velvety texture on the mouth, the fruit is contending well with the oak. A thrilling and balanced wine - only the slight baked character on the nose stops this from being a magnificent wine.
  With time, air, and medium cooked Marriott burger the nose starts to pull itself together, some red fruits, a hint of blueberry. Weirdly as the nose cleans up, the palate becomes more as you’d expect - American oak caramel coming back to the fore. Still a pup but this will be magnificent in time.

  7 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (1)

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View SirFred's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/2/2024 - SirFred Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Drinking so beautifully at this young stage with classic Lopez character. Very smooth and elegant with an almost Burgundian texture. An expansive nose with flowers, pepper, and spice box wafting out of the glass. Cherry and cigar ash with a long finish. Very complex and savory with ripe tannins. It seems to get better with each bottle. Never had a bad bottle of tondonia, and this may be the best vintage yet. The Bosconia is also excellent in this vintage. Hard to decide which one I like better, but I’m looking forward to following their development over the next three decades.

  8 people found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comments (7)

View all 227 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.