1991 R. López de Heredia Rioja Gran Reserva Viña Bosconia

Community Tasting Notes (131) Avg Score: 92.1 points

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  3/8/2024 - glou.sf Likes this wine: 94 Points

  Quite difficult wine to read. There's some red fruit and a hint of cellar must on the nose, followed by spices, pepper, and forest notes. Good acidity with brighter fruit notes, strawberries, cherries, underwood, and leather on the nose. It felt a lot fresher than the 1991 Tondonia Reserva next to it. Long finish. Very intriguing and lovely wine, although it requires attention and focus.

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  2/21/2024 - rocknroller wrote: 95 Points

  Porzana (Porzana, Mpls): Medium dark red color with subtle bricking to a 1mm clear margin. PNP, drank a glass plus over an 2 hours. It's been almost 2 years sonce last having this. This bottle is a wow, showing great. The nose display a perfume of dried flowers, pencil, wonderful wood spices, dried forest floor, pine needles, and dried dill weed. The palate is classic, medium plus bodied, Burgundian, earth, leather, pencil, pretty red fruits abound, shellac, lacquer, black raspberry syrup, very long and soft. I loved it. It did fade some after an hour showing more dill and weediness. 95+ to 96pts.

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  11/27/2022 - CADomer Likes this wine: 95 Points

  It has been 4 years since my last bottle and this wine is still just as beautiful as it was then. Elegant, pure and so fresh. Blueberries, spice, and black licorice. Watching this wine open up over an evening is something special.

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  4/14/2022 - I'd Rather Be Drinking Wine Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Guys Night - Anything Goes Blind!: PnP - Served double blind (except for the owner). This wine could immediately be identified as old world, and with some age. It had a very nice blend of fruit and tertiary flavors, and so much going on. It constantly evolved in the glass as the night wore on. I can't imagine this wine drinking any better for my palate! Mostly red fruit with hints of black fruit showing through periodically. Tertiary flavors included earth, mushroom, unagi and dried leather, with hints of dried flowers. The nose was perfumed and dusty at the same time. The tannins were smooth and polished with just enough acidity to keep the fruit alive and well. I would not have guessed this Spanish originally because the oak was so well integrated. A pleasure to drink! 96+ for me and WOTN, among some stiff competition!

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  4/14/2022 - galewskj wrote: 96 Points

  Guys night - Anything goes: I lost my notes, but this was fantastic. The color looks like pinot noir. There are secondary flavors all over the place.

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