Red Wine

López de Heredia

Viña Tondonia Reserve 2012, 75cl

Rioja Alta

López de Heredia

Viña Tondonia is a stunning 100-hectare vineyard located on the right bank of the Ebro River. With alluvial clay-limestone soils, it is ideal for producing structured, elegant wines. The vines span 170 hectares and yield an average of 800,000 kg of grapes per year, used exclusively in the estate’s highest-quality D.O.Ca. Rioja wines.

Harvesting is entirely manual, bunch by bunch, using a curved knife called a “corquete”, preventing any damage or early fermentation. The grapes are carefully placed in traditional containers made at the winery itself, where their long conversation with oak begins.

After being weighed and gently destemmed, the grapes release the must, which immediately comes into contact with the natural yeasts on the grape skins. Fermentation takes place in large 240 hl oak vats over about seven days, followed by a slower malolactic fermentation in Bordeaux-style barrels that lasts five to six months.

Following racking, the wine is aged for six years in 225-liter American oak barrels in perfectly conditioned underground cellars, then bottled unfiltered and allowed to rest in glass.

Food Pairing: This elegant, refined wine with spicy and vanilla notes is a perfect match for warm salads with quail or poultry, puff pastries, foie gras with raspberry reduction, roast lamb or suckling pig, cured meats, soft cheeses, mushrooms… Extremely versatile and adaptable to many moments.

Awards

95 / 100 Robert Parker (vintage 2012)
95 / 100 Tim Atkin (vintage 2012)
95 / 100 Decántalo (vintage 2012)

Allergens information

Contains sulphites.

R. López de Heredia/ Viña Tondonia, S. A.

For 147 years, four generations of the López de Heredia family have been dedicated to producing exceptional and unique wines. Masterpieces that have achieved what the founder of the company, Rafael López de Heredia y Landeta, defined in the late nineteenth century as the “Supreme Rioja”.

Vineyard care, scrupulous grape selection, aging in oak barrels in the heart of deep underground galleries, and subsequent aging in bottles, all contribute to making these wines world-famous, with their exceptional bouquet.

No grapes from other regions have been used to make any of López de Heredia’s wines; not even when the Consejo Regulador (Regulating Body) of the DOC Rioja allowed, once, the use of grapes from other regions under certain conditions and circumstances. This winery has never used other grapes or wines since its foundation in 1877; a fact recognized by the Regulating Body in the form of a “Diploma de Garantía” (Diploma of Guarantee) awarded exclusively to López de Heredia/Viña Tondonia, S. A. This diploma is proudly displayed on the back label of all bottles.

Address

Avda. de Vizcaya, 3. 26200 Haro. La Rioja