This is a must hit tasting for anyone in San Francisco tomorrow. Taste white, rosés and reds from the ultra traditionalist Rioja producer R. López de Heredia with vintages rolling back to the 80′s.
Tomorrow (Thurs. Jan 28th) at Arlequin Wine Merchant between 6:00pm and 8:00pm. $25 will let you taste and there will be special event pricing should you decide to take a bottle home.
The Lineup:
Tondonia Blanco Reserva 1990
Gravonia Blanco Crianza 1999
Tondonia Rosado Reserva 1998
Cubillo Crianza 2003
Bosconia Reserva 2001
Tondonia Gran Riserva 1987
More on R. López de Heredia here.
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4 Responses:
January 27th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
In Vancouver,
Kits and Dundarave Wine Cellars have the best selection of these wines with vintages (red, white and rosado) going back to 1981.
I did a couple of tastings with them in the past few months- these are stellar, super traditional wines.
I just processed another order for the 2 stores from Lopez de Heredia and in a couple of weeks they should also have some magnums of Tondonia Reserva Tinto 2000, the Cubillo crianza 2003 just arrived as did the Bosconia Reserva 2001 (killer vintage).
The stores also sell some 375ml bottles.
This is one of my suppliers that I am VERY proud to represent!
January 27th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Thanks for the shout-out! If I were in SF (or California… or the West Coast) right now I’d definitely go to this event as it sounds AMAZING. Those of you who haven’t tried anything from R. Lopez de Heredia: do yourselves a favor, pony up the $25, and try these wonderful wines. I mean, when else can you try a wine from 1987, much less a Gran Riserva?
January 29th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
Nice to see you on here Joon! That was a great post on Heredia.
Khristian: I can’t wait. I hope you get a chacne to do another tasting as Matt forgot to put my email on the invite to the last one. The couple wines I’ve had from Heredia have been outstanding.
January 31st, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Lopez truly is fantastic and thanks to Kristian for continuing to bring them in. And thanks for blogging about them guys. And sorry Shea. We had the ’81 gran reserva bianco at staff party recently and it was most likely the wine of the night along with Tissot’s Savignin (in a ridiculous line up).
Cheers.