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R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia only has one red wine that comes in a Burgundy bottle, and that wine is Viña Bosconia Reserva 2013. Like older Burgundies, it’s notable for its balance and structure, is fruit driven, and has been aged for a very long 10 years in both barrel and bottle. Even so, it retains its deepest roots in the nose and on the palate.
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Type of wine
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15% Garnacha tinta, 80% Tempranillo, 5% Graciano y mazuelo
Type of barrel
American oak barrels
Type of bottle
Burgundy
Barrel aging time
5 years
Capacity (cl)
75
Total acidity (g/l)
6.7
Alcohol content (% vol.)
13.5
General Information
Made from a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano, Viña Bosconia Reserva 2013 is a particularly good example of the classical side of Rioja. It’s a wine that bears the hallmark of the winery: as is usually the case with R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia, it’s been aged for a very long period of nearly 10 years in oak barrels and the bottle. The result is an elegant and highly complex wine, a traditional Rioja that’s still got a long life ahead of it.
R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia is a family winery with a century-old track record that started out in 1877. Based in Haro’s station district, it’s currently run by siblings María José, Mercedes and Julio López de Heredia. It’s furthermore a winery that only uses grapes grown in its own vineyards, which are cultivated using natural methods, shunning any kind of intervention.
Viña Bosconia Reserva 2013 was made according to the oldest techniques employed in Rioja using natural yeast and carrying out alcoholic fermentation in old oak vats, with manual racking and bottling without filtering. Five years in American oak rounded off a winemaking process as artisanal as it is effective.
This luxury Rioja will go perfectly with stewed meat dishes.
The winery
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If there is one winery that embodies the concept of the purest classicism in Rioja, it is undoubtedly R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia. A unique winery in the world, with an unparalleled winemaking style, impervious to trends. To begin with, R. López de Heredia Viña Tondonia is a 100% family-run business, managed by four successive generations of the López Heredia family since its foundation in 1877 by Rafael López de Heredia in Haro, the oldest winery in this town recognized as the capital of La Rioja Alta and the heart of Rioja wine. There, they maintain impressive facilities reminiscent of cathedrals, and their unique underground cellars where those fine and long-lived wines, embodying classic Rioja with an absolutely distinctive profile, rest for years.
Currently, the three López Heredia Montoya siblings (María José, Mercedes, and Julio) are at the helm of this house, which remains faithful (with minor adjustments) to its original philosophy. They define themselves as viticulturists: the grape supply comes from their own vineyards, all acquired by their great-grandfather, where they are committed to natural methods and minimal intervention; and above all, as artisans in winemaking: fermentations in wooden vats (instead of stainless steel), manual rackings, and very long aging periods in barrels and bottles that far exceed those established by the Regulatory Council of the D.O.Ca. Rioja. Another distinctive example of maintaining tradition in this house is that it has its own cooperage workshop, being the only Spanish winery today that still builds all its barrels by hand.
At the beginning of 2021, in the sixth edition of the Rioja Report, the prestigious British journalist and Master of Wine Tim Atkin selected Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva Blanco 2001 as the best wine among more than 1,200 analyzed creations. Additionally, he named Mercedes López de Heredia as the best winemaker of 2021 and selected Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva 2010 as the best rosé of the year.