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R. Lopez de Heredia 2016 Vina Tondonia 'Vina Gravonia' Crianza Blanco

R. Lopez de Heredia 2016 Vina Tondonia 'Vina Gravonia' Crianza Blanco

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95 Point Score by The Wine Advocate
"2016 was a superb vintage in Rioja, and the 2016 Viña Gravonia Blanco, which has the cellar aroma that all the wines, especially the whites, have, due to the longer time the wines spend in barrel. The white vines in this vineyard are now 92 years old and their juice was fermented in old oak vats with indigenous yeasts. They explained, "We have never used selected yeasts." It was matured in their well-seasoned American oak barrels for four years. It's paler than any of the other whites, and it has a little less pungency, with very good freshness. It's elegant, subtle, clean and ethereal. They had good yields and a good climatic year. 42,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022. I give these wines a conservative drinking window, but they will probably last much longer."

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94 Point Score by Tim Aitkin - *Master Of Wine, UK Wine Journalist
93 Point Score by VINOUS Media

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