For many years my friends & I subsisted on a fairly steady diet of Lopez, occasionally dipping into other producers but always coming back to Lopez. As prices have slowly risen & our tastes have evolved our diet is more varied,but this bottle reminds me of why Lopez was true North for us. The Bosconia bottlings were I think always considered the lesser to Tondonia, & priced accordingly, but here 15 yrs of age really shines: all sorts of crushed red fruits, natural vanilla stalk, and tree bark. Such length & beautiful concentration,with fine tannins folded into that vanilla cushion of all those years in barrel. Less of the tomato concentration I find in Tondonias, to its benefit. Perhaps my only caveat-but it’s more like a differential-is a moderately more simple flavor profile, with less of the lingering & tertiary flavors I remember from Tondonias. Also, so full of energy & still fresh. God, how I love this wine. Drank during a Mets loss, which makes it even more impressive given the game didn’t sour my experience of it
For many years my friends & I subsisted on a fairly steady diet of Lopez, occasionally dipping into other producers but always coming back to Lopez. As prices have slowly risen & our tastes have evolved our diet is more varied,but this bottle reminds me of why Lopez was true North for us. The Bosconia bottlings were I think always considered the lesser to Tondonia, & priced accordingly, but here 15 yrs of age really shines: all sorts of crushed red fruits, natural vanilla stalk, and tree bark. Such length & beautiful concentration,with fine tannins folded into that vanilla cushion of all those years in barrel. Less of the tomato concentration I find in Tondonias, to its benefit. Perhaps my only caveat-but it’s more like a differential-is a moderately more simple flavor profile, with less of the lingering & tertiary flavors I remember from Tondonias. Also, so full of energy & still fresh. God, how I love this wine. Drank during a Mets loss, which makes it even more impressive given the game didn’t sour my experience of it
Oct 1st, 2022