Bodegas R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Reserva 2012 750ml Bottle on the Dutch coast

on the Dutch coast

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The 2012 came from an exceptionally dry growing season — 25% below average rainfall — that produced concentrated

It outsells its Italian home market in Argentina

Ivica Piližota has been farming these inland parcels near Šibenik since the family restored the winery in 2002

Bodegas R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Reserva 2012 750ml Bottle on the Dutch coastSPAIN : RIOJA : RIOJA ALTA ORGANIC : Tempranillo, Garnacha, Graciano, Mazuelo MED FULL BODIED, DRIED CHERRY, LEATHER, TOBACCO, DRIED HERBS, OAK Via Tondonia sits on a horseshoe meander of the Ebro River 70 hectares of organic vines planted in alluvial clay and limestone, facing south, slow to ripen and slower to release. The winery, founded in 1877 and still in family hands four generations on, maintains its own cooperage and ages this Reserva six