2015 R. López de Heredia Rioja Blanco Viña Gravonia

Community Tasting Notes (23) Avg Score: 91.8 points

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  3/17/2024 - Peter Spijker Likes this wine: 91 Points

  I've never had a disappointing bottle of Gravonia, and this was no exception. Lovely intense lemon, nuts, oak, ripe yellow apple, good balance between fruit and oxidative notes. I do think it misses a tiny bit of intensity and complexity, that I suspect will come with few more years in the bottle. I will start drinking these in 2026.

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  2/18/2024 - AlphaMikeFoxtrot Likes this wine: 91 Points

  Butterscotch, vanilla, coconut, white flowers, yeast, just a bit of ripe yellow apple and ripe quince on the nose. Medium + intensity of aromas. The palate adds tea leaves and white pepper which are a nice counterpoint to all the oak flavors, which remain. The fruit remains too. Overall the flavors are consistent with the aromas. Medium + intensity of flavors with a similarily intense finish that lasts 35 seconds.
  
  Medium + body with zippy medium + acid that really balances it out. I like the conbination of American oak and high acid. Developing. Drinking well now, but will continue to age for 5-10 more years in the bottle.

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  2/9/2024 - LiquidThoughts.de Likes this wine: 92 Points

  [TASTED AT A WINEBAR @ GRAPES, MUNICH, GERMANY]
  
  ENGLISH:
  Nose: Funky fino sherry on the nose, salty but also candied light nuts, especially cashews and some macadamia, subtle butter, but also old, oxidized wood laying by the sea, light raisins and some unripe papaya, very aromatic but not loud, clover and wax, later also dried fruit fresh from the oven
  Taste: Similar play in the mouth, Fino and Palo Cortado sherry, oxidative notes, cashew nuts, salt, beeswax, clover, light raisins and light wood, some unripe tropical fruit, medium body, acidity not as intense as you would think, even rather nice and playful, but dry
  Comment: Funky single grape variety bottling with exciting characteristics, a dream for lovers of dry sherries, also develops for a long time in the glass...
  
  GERMAN (ORIGINAL):
  Nose: Funky Fino Sherry in der Nase, salzige aber auch kandierte helle Nüsse, insbesondere Cashewkerne und etwas Macadamia, dezente Butter, aber auch altes, oxidiertes Holz am Meer, helle Rosinen und etwas unreife Papaya, sehr aromatisch, aber nicht laut, Klee und Wachs, später auch Trockenfrüchte frisch aus dem Ofen
  Taste: Ähnliches Spiel im Mund, Fino und Palo Cortado Sherry, oxidative Noten, Cashewkerne, Salz, Bienenwachs, Klee, helle Rosinen und helles Holz, etwas unreife tropische Frucht, mittlerer Körper, Säure nicht so intensiv wie man denken würde, sogar eher nett verspielt, aber trocken
  Comment: Funky Reinsortler mit spannenden Eigenschaften, ein Traum für Liebhaber trockener Sherrys, entwickelt sich auch lange im Glas...

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  2/2/2024 - diggydan wrote: 95 Points

  This was awful. Who would want a creamy, minerally, saline, textural mouth-bomb? My mistake for buying it, please don't. Thanks!

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  1/20/2024 - Adrian Chmielarz Likes this wine: 93 Points

  Fresh, aromatic, complex. Summer fruits with nuts and wax in the background -- but that's just the beginning. If this is so good, how heavenly do Tondonia Reserva and Gran Reserva must be?!

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