Viña Tondonia Tinto Reserva 2011
Fiche technique
Accord mets et vin
Fetuccine con strogonoff de ternera y boletus
El carácter especiado de Tondonia marida muy bien con una salsa intensa como esta, que se ve enriquecida por el sabor de los boletus.
Vignoble et élaboration
L'avis des experts
A traditional beauty that effuses iron, warm earth and savory tobacco leaves, together with plums, spices and orange zest. This is juicy and still tight, with firm but savory tannins. Medium-weight and quite zesty in texture, as is the case with the other López de Heredia reds tasted this session. Drink now or hold.
Aged for nearly six years in very old barrels, Tondonia is one of Rioja's most proudly traditional wines. Tempranillo dominated, with 20% Garnacha and 5% of both Graciano and Mazuelo, this is complex, mature and well-structured, with plenty of acidity, sinewy tannins, some balsamic sweetness and a taut, focused, age-worthy finish. 2023-35
The 2011 Viña Tondonia Reserva is darker and shows riper fruit, a rounder palate and some dusty tannins. A year of ripeness, concentration and tannin, the wine is powerful with the finesse of Tondonia. Tasting this next to the textbook 2010 Tondonia revealed how this has more muscle and a wider back and the 2010 epitomizes the finesse and elegance. 270,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2019.
Selección y amor, dos palabras que se convirtieron en la Biblia de los vinos que Rafael López de Heredia decidió elaborar tras ser aconsejado por bodegueros del Medoc y negociantes franceses que residían en Haro.
Millésimes: 2011 2010 2009 2008
Un gran vino.
Excelente. Repetir.