A Rioja Legend That Ages Like No Other
- R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia -
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Bt (750ml)
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Tasting note
As I wrote earlier this year, the 1982 Léoville Las Cases is one of the least evolved wines of the vintage, and this impeccably conserved ex-château bottle was, if anything, even more youthful still. Retaining a saturated ruby-black hue at age 40, it unwinds in the glass with aromas of cassis and other dark fruits mingled with notions of pencil shavings and loamy soil. On the palate, it's full-bodied, broad-shouldered and muscular, with an ample core of fruit framed by voluminous, powdery tannins. Rich and concentrated, with an expansive, comparatively low-acid profile, it comes into its own with extended aeration—and with food.
Score: 97
William Kelley, The Wine Advocate, December 2022
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Born from three plots in Chamery on clay-limestone and sandy-limestone soils, this balanced blend of 40% Pinot Noir, 40% Meunier and 20% Chardonnay prioritizes freshness and tension over exuberance. It reveals vivid nectarine, citrus and brioche aromas leading to a tense, mineral palate of chalky focus and striking precision. Pure, gastronomic and deeply terroir-driven with a long saline finish.
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Tasting note
The 2022 À Mi-Chemin is not a wine you should judge by its cover: initially, it seems very ripe, fruity and welcoming on the nose. But then it shows its true colors. This wine is the vinous equivalent of having a bucket of water thrown in your face while you're asleep. The tension and mineral flinty character are real wake-up calls for your palate. Its persistence and line are powerfully pushed across your palate. It has spice and momentum and holds you tight. The 2022 needs time. It was grown on a flint-rich parcel in the village of Saint-Satur, which sits below the hilltop town of Sancerre.
Score: 93
Rebecca Gibb MW, Vinous.com, July 2024
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Tasting note
Medium yellow. A fine and balanced bouquet, suggesting the sunny generosity of Combettes. I like the precision here though, with a little biscuity touch as well, and possible a touch more warmth, but all in control. Notably persistent. Drink from 2028-2035. Tasted Oct 2023.
Score: 92-95
Jasper Morris, Inside Burgundy, October 2023
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Tasting note
The newest vintage of this classic Languedoc red is a solid effort. The 2020 IGP Saint Guilhem le Desert is 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, with no more than 6% of any other single grape variety present. Naturally, cassis elements lead the way, backed by black cherries and herbal notes, plus a subtle, barely noticeable layer of cedar tying everything together. It's medium to full-bodied, streamlined and smooth in feel, with a long, silky, elegant finish.
Score: 93
Joe Czerwinski, The Wine Advocate, January 2023
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Tasting note
Krug's NV Grande Cuvée 170ème Édition is based on the 2014 vintage, complemented by some 45% reserve wines dating back to 1998, with the house drawing on, among many others, 2013 for structure and 2012 and 2003 for generosity. Opening in the glass with aromas of pastry cream, dried fruits, pear, warm spices, freshly baked bread and vanilla pod, it's medium to full-bodied, pillowy and fine-boned, with excellent concentration, racy acids and a precise, chiseled profile. But if the latter adjective could be applied to the 2013-base 169ème édition equally felicitously, the 2014-base 170ème is more giving and less tightly wound out of the gates and will offer more demonstrative drinking young.
Score: 95
William Kelley, The Wine Advocate, June 2022
Bt (750ml)
Stock Location: HK
Tasting note
The 2010 Viña Tondonia Rosado Gran Reserva was hitting on all cylinders. It was produced with 60% Garnacho (they use the masculine of the name here), 30% Tempranillo and 10% white Viura from vines averaging 91 years of age. Like all the wines, it fermented with indigenous yeasts (they have never used selected yeasts) in the 142 oak vats they have used since the beginning and then matured in old American oak barrels for four years. There is tons of complexity and nuance here; it's super elegant and layered, and as the wine sat in the glass, it developed more and more complex aromas, a subtle combination of balsam, red acid berries, a hint of medicine, fennel and wet chalk, a diesel-like touch, old wood and mushroom (beetroot?), licorice and yellow flowers, sweet spices... There's a lot more of everything. It's clean and crystalline, fresh and long, with terrific balance and depth. This has to be the finest rosado of recent times... 25,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2016.
Score: 96
Luis Gutiérrez,Issue 251 End of October 2020, The Wine Advocate, October 2020
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