In the glass
Aroma: dried orange, white pepper, almond skin, wild herb, rosehip
Palate: blood orange, pithy citrus, savoury spice, saline
The most famous rosado in the world: barrel-aged for years, copper-coloured, savoury and saline, it drinks like a serious gastronomic white rather than a summer pink.
What it pairs with
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Gilda pintxo
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The anchovy, olive and guindilla skewer's salt and acid mirror the rosado's saline bite. -
Anchoa fresca
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Fresh marinated anchovy and the wine's saline citrus are a Cantabrian-coast natural. -
Jamon and melon
Cured ham with melon meets the rosado's dried-orange savour. -
Paella de marisco
Saffron seafood rice finds a serious partner in this gastronomic rosado.
History
Lopez de Heredia ages its rosado in American oak for around four years, an almost unheard-of treatment for a pink wine, producing a savoury, age-worthy rose that has become a sommelier cult bottle.
- 1944 — Barrel-aged rosado established in the Tondonia range
- 2019 — Tondonia rosado becomes a global sommelier-list staple
Facts
- Producer
- R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia
- Grapes
- Garnacha (60%), Tempranillo (30%), Viura (10%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Around 4 years in American oak barrels before release
- ABV
- 12.5%
- Price
- EUR 30 to 55 at retail
- Drinking window
- 3 to 15 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1944
Scores
- Vinous 94 (2012 vintage, reviewed 2021)
- Decanter 93 (2011 vintage, reviewed 2020)