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Lopez de Heredia Vina Bosconia Gran Reserva 1970

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1970 Vintage

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Winery:
R. Lopez de Heredia
Varietal:
Tempranillo
Region:
Spain > Rioja > Rioja Alavesa
Type:
Red Wine
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User Tags:  fruits, rich, dried, raspberries, spice, fresh, mint, tobacco, trees, oily 


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The Rioja region of Spain produces one of the world's finest, and most long lived wines: Rioja. Rioja's renaissance, in the latter half of the 19th century, was a direct result of the phyloxera bug that decimated vineyards around the globe. While English merchants came to Rioja to replace their French imports, the wines here actually have much more in common with Chianti. Both wines are blend relying heavily on one grape, in this case Tempranillo. Like Chianti's Sangiovese, Tempranillo usually produces a relatively high acid wine of medium to medium-full body. Tempranillo tends to produce wines with a dusty, leathery edge to its raspberry and blackberry fruit tones. With additions of Graciano, Mazuela and Grancha, the wines of Rioja can take on additional layers of flavor and aroma, but the tradition of extended oak aging for Rioja's great wines contributes to an even more obvious imprint. While the Spaniards have traditionally been fans of the strong vanilla and coconut components that American oak barrels have contributed to Rioja, more and more producers have turned to French oak favoring its more subtle spice tones. Rioja continues to undergo extended aging in barrel with Reserva and Gran Reserva bottlings, representing a producer's highest achievement, spending a minimum of 3 of 5 years respectively in the producer's cellar.

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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Dal Piaz
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7,117

Opening with an herbal funky edge this gains a green citrus oil element then fermenting tobacco tones and a touch of nut oil sets off the black plum fruit. This is a little leathery with perhaps a touch of brett lurking. In the mouth this is round and rich yet with out the fine balance of the 1970 Tondonia, It comes off as a bit rustic in tonight's company with rich black currant and black raspberry fruit that has a touch of stemminess. The finish tapers off quickly leaving a bit of drying tannin and a tarry finale. Better on the nose but still quite good. 91pts


March 2009

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Snooth User: Gregory Dal Piaz
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7,117

This has a fantastic nose with sweet plums, toasted spices popping in a hot cast iron skillet, coffee tones and an enchanting candied violet/rose tone. The wine moves through stages alternately gaining a more roasted, caramelly tone and then reverting to cinnamon and tobacco spice dried raspberry, either way it smells great. In the mouth it is rich with resolved tannins and bright acidity offering up a rather Burgundian feel. There is a minty, herbal top note up front then a precise and transparent mid-palate with great mineral cut that retains a cherried core of fruit with a distinct watermelon read more...


December 2008

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"The 1970 Viña Bosconia Gran Reserva is a captivating effort, with endless, well-defined nuances of pine, minerals and sweet red fruits that emerge from the glass in a breathtaking display of purity and class. It shows the extraordinary length, great expression and the pure breed of a truly great wine...93" Antonio Galloni 10/06


 

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Rating: 93/100 - As reviewed in Piedmont Report # G on Oct-06


 

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