1987 Lopez de Heredia "Viña Tondonia" Gran Reserva Rioja
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Bid on this 3-bottle lot of 1987 Lopez de Heredia "Viña Tondonia" Gran Reserva Rioja (91ST, 91VN, 90RP). Vinous: "The 1987 Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva displays an expressive, perfumed nose with suggestions of cedar, leather, licorice, cocoa and minerals along with ethereal layers of sweet fruit that open in the glass. Although it offers excellent length and prominent acidity which will allow the wine to drink well for at least another decade its overall balance is not quite as outstanding as that of the best Gran Reservas in this tasting. (AG)" (10/2006)
1987 Lopez de Heredia "Viña Tondonia" Gran Reserva Rioja
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Included in this lot · 3 bottles
Provenance: Purchased from a reputable source and stored in a temparature-controlled wine storage facility until shipped to K&L via refrigerated freight.
1987 Lopez de Heredia "Viña Tondonia" Gran Reserva Rioja
93JG
91ST
91VN
90RP
Quantity:3Bottle Size:750 mlLabel Condition:One bottle lightly scuffed label and lightly bin soiled label; One bottle lightly scuffed label; One bottle lightly bin soiled label
Reviews
93
John Gilman
01/2009
The 1987 Tondonia Gran Reserva is an excellent wine that has now reached its apogee of maturity and is drinking splendidly. The deep and classy bouquet delivers a fine mix of raspberries, hickory smoke, fresh nutmeg, herb tones, and the classic blend of Rioja spice and soil. On the palate the wine is full-bodied, long and complex, with fine mid-palate depth, lovely, tangy acids, and excellent length and grip on the complex and dancing finish. While the 1987 Tondonia Gran Reserva is a superb glass of wine today, I might be tempted to give it even a few more years in the cellar to see if an additional layer of complexity will emerge with more bottle age. An excellent vintage for this consistently excellent bottling.
91
Int'l Wine Cellar
09/2005
Orange-tinged red. Aromas of plum, gunflint and tobacco. Dense and silky but penetrating, with ethereal flavors of red fruits, minerals and smoke. Soft, round and resolved yet this also possesses a sappy quality. The sweet fruit carries into a very long, coconutty finish featuring firm-edged tannins. (Tasting old wines in the bodega's spooky, cobwebbed cellar can be thrilling, but in recent years I have had considerable difficulty finding fresh bottles of the Lopez de Heredia wines in the U.S. market. This time around I was lucky.) (ST)
