Tasting Notes
The white vines in this vineyard are now 92 years old and their juice was fermented in old oak vats with indigenous yeasts. Complex and developed with notes of beeswax, lanolin, lemon rind and honey. It's amazing how long these whites from Rioja can age.
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To step back inside the López de Heredia winery is to step back in time. Founded in 1877, and little changed since, López de Heredia might not be quite the oldest winery in Rioja, but they are certainly the most tradition bound and least changed. You read a lot of marketing fluff about ‘family winemaking tradition’, but at López de Heredia, it’s real. Maria José López de Heredia and her winemaker sister, Mercedes, couldn’t care less about wine fashions. They've been producing wines in the style their great grandfather did, where their wines slumber in their deep cellars for many years before release. The quest for perfection is of utmost importance, and no wine is released until it is ready.