2007 R. López de Heredia Rioja Reserva Viña Tondonia

Community Tasting Notes (250) Avg Score: 90.8 points

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  4/27/2024 - foyfrcs Likes this wine: 90 Points

  Medium garnet.
  Unexceptional nose, a little black fruit, vanilla & leather.
  Medium bodied, low tannins.
  Didn’t get much primary fruit on the palate. Cedar, earth, mushrooms mainly.
  Decanted for a couple of hours prior to tasting (following advice/comments received from fellow CT members after my Tondonia 2006 tasting note last evening-for which thankyou.)
  Struggling with the RP 96 rating.
  First bottle of a case so it will be interesting to see how this evolves/develops over the next 5-10 years.

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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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