Lopez de Heredia 'Bosconia' Reserva 2013

Producer: Lopez de Heredia
Region: Rioja, Spain
Grape Varieties: 80% Tempranillo, 15% Garnacha, 5% Graciano and Mazuelo
Viticulture: Organic
Category: Red
Size: 750ml

A rarity in Rioja, Lopez de Heredia uses only estate bottled fruit from their prized vineyards- Tondonia, Cubillo, Bosconia, and Zaconia- with the idea that the only way to get the best fruit is to care for the vines themselves. 

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. Their bodega in Barrio del Estacion in Haro is a living museum - cobwebbed Miss Havisham barrel rooms, black furry mold everywhere, little old men doing the same job that their father did decades before. The wines slumber for years in barrel and then bottle prior to release. Rarely can age worthy wine of this quality be found at this price.