The white wine Viña Tondonia Blanco Gran Reserva Rioja DOCa, vintage 1991 from the winery Bodegas López de Heredia Viña Tondonia has been rated in 2016 by Ulrich Sautter with 95 Falstaff points. It is a wine made from the region La Rioja in Spain.
90% Viura and 10% Malvasia, aged for ten years in wooden barrels and racked twice a year. Before bottling (which is done by hand) it's fined with chicken egg whites - like a red wine. Light golden in colour. The bouquet is on the one hand tertiary: old wood, iodine, but at the same time there's remnants of primary fruit: lime blossom, verbena and grapefruit peel in particular. The palate is round and full-bodied, soft to almost oily, with only a mild acidity. As it transitions to the finish there is an astringency that still seems downright youthful, and the acidity tightens up. Finishes dry, extract-driven and very mineral. A fascinating freshness despite the maturity: timeless rather than old-fashioned, and not at all stale.
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