R. Lopez de Heredia "Vina Tondonia" Rioja Reserva 2011

Vin Chicago: 93+ Points

(3/2024) Beautiful, and one of our favorite ever vintages of Tondonia's Reserva! Delicious flavors of cinnamon, leaves, dried flowers, crumbly red earth, and sweet American wood!

Wine & Spirits : 94 Points

(4/2021) If you love traditional Rioja, Tondonia Reserva delivers from 2011, tight and floral, light and meaty with complexity that doesn’t stop. This is estate grown on a meander of the Ebro near the winery in Haro, where the Lopez de Heredia family ferments this juice with ambient yeasts in large oak vats, then rests it in old barrels before long aging in bottle. Silken in texture with notes of oak and an edge of volatility, this is a mouthwatering Rioja that’s about as versatile a red wine as you can find.

Wine Advocate : 94 Points

(7/14/2022) The 2011 Vina 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. Drink Date: 2022 - 2029.

James Suckling : 95 Points

(9/9/2022) 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.