Caractéristiques
- Pays:
- Espagne
- Appellation précise:
- Rioja
- Millésime:
- 2001
- Couleur:
- Rouge
- Type de vin:
- Sec
- Format:
- Bouteille de 75cl
- Cépage(s):
- 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha, Graciano et Mazuelo
- Terroir:
- Sols argileux composés d'alluvions et de calcaire
- Vinification:
- Fermentation avec levures indigènes en cuves bois de 153 ans
- Elevage:
- Durant 10 ans en barriques usées avec 2 décuvages par an. Collage aux blancs d’œufs frais, non filtré
- Degré:
- 13%
Dégustation et Garde
- Boire à partir de :
- 2021
- Apogée :
- 2021-2029
- Boire avant :
- 2031+
- Conseil de service :
- En bouteille
- Servir à :
- 18°
Description
“Viña Tandonia” Gran Reserva représente la quintessence de la Bodega Lopez de Heredia. Considéré comme l’un des plus grands Rioja, cette cuvée a la particularité de vieillir en fût pendant 10 ans en barriques avec seulement 2 soutirages par an. L’assemblage de Tempranillo et de Grenache est complété par le Graciano et le Mazuelo.
Ce 2001 montre un nez puissant qui oscille entre fruit noir profond et notes tertiaires. Le floral et le cuir se révèlent au deuxième nez avec beaucoup de classe. La bouche est construite sur la longueur. L’attaque vive s’allonge jusqu’aux tanins, matures à souhait. La persistante est tout simplement fantastique de sapidité !
Suggestion gourmande
Lièvre à la royale.
Avis des Experts
James Suckling
"Wow. This is really something on the nose, offering ripe plums that are highlighted with old and used leather, walnut and cedar, reminiscent of the interior of a fine vintage sports car. Full-bodied with very fine tannins and delicious, ripe fruit that continues on for minutes. Tile and dark berry at the end. Still tight and fresh for the vintage. A great wine. Drink or hold."
The Wine Advocate
"The 2001 Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva is the follow-up of the 1995. There is a sense of harmony and elegance, of nuance and subtleness that wasn't quite the same in the Bosconia, as comparing both wines is inevitable. They started picking the red grapes the 15th of October, and the last grapes were picked the 29th of October with good weather. The grapes ripened properly and thoroughly, and the wine has great balance for a long aging in bottle. This is 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacho and 5% each Graciano and Mazuelo that fermented in their 153-year-old oak vats with indigenous yeasts and matured in used barrels for 10 years. It has 13% alcohol, a pH of 3.4 and 6.4 grams of acidity (tartaric). The nose shows young (tasting it blind, you'd guess a 10-year old wine, not a 20-year-old wine!). It has a nose of sweet spices, underbrush and cigar ash, somewhat balsamic, bramble fruit with perfect ripeness, integrated and young but starting to show some tertiary complexity. The palate is velvety and medium-bodied, with fine-grained, chalky tannins denoting a limestone soil that brings finesse and texture and a sapid, tasty, almost salty finish. This is going to make a beautiful bottle of old Rioja in 30 years' time! 25,000 bottles produced. It was bottled after being fined with egg whites in July 2012."
Beau millésime transition entre fruit noir profond et notes tertiaires !