Viña Tondonia Gran Reserva 2001
Descripción
Obra maestra de artesanía y refinamiento. El resultado del buen hacer de la bodega y del perfecto dominio de la técnica nos entrega un vino que habla de elegancia, finura y sutileza. La elaboración más clásica, auténtica y natural del vino encuentra su espejo en este tinto de variedades riojanas históricas que se cultivan desde hace más de 100 años y que se mezclan en la viña.
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Ficha técnica
Cata
Viñedo y elaboración
Opinión de los críticos
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.
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.
Not quite as thrilling as the white Gran Reserva from the same vintage, but there's no shame in that. Tempranillo is the dominant variety, with the other 30% made up of Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo. Mature, wild and savoury, with a meaty, animal top note, taut acidity and an underlying green streak. Unusual. 2021-28
Añadas: 2001 1995 1994
Un vino para tomar ahora o dentro de 20 años tranquilamente.
Un vino de altisima calidad, de lo mejor que he probado