Viña Tondonia Reserva Rioja Blanco Malvasia Viura

Salted orange peel. Butterscotch. Toasted nuts. Amaze balls.

Outstanding.

There is still more time to build complexity on this gorgeous wine. I'm drinking my bottles too quickly, but it's hard not to when it's this good!

Served with Fisherman’s Pasta - sablefish, mussels, saffron gnocchetti pasta, fennel, fresh baguette toast. If there is one thing constant about every Lopez de Heredia Blanco that I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying, it’s that they are never boring. The 2006 delivers on that with notes of dates, dried apricot, German candied nuts, marshmallows, cumin, dill and toasted coconut. Dry with fantastic acid and the texture is waxy. One of my favorite white wines on earth. Will probably live for another 20 years easy.

Still a baby! Yellow wax bean, honeysuckle, caremelized onion.

Stunning—ripe and fleshy without being hot, shows lemon and orange marmalade, apricot, toasted nuts and chamomile, oak adds roundness and texture and a subtle spice

Lovely stuff. Orange peel, apricot, corn and lemon oil. Dry finish with limestone. Unusual and delicious.

Always a favorite. Lemon verbena, beeswax, wax beans.

Liqueur like. Some lightly toasted marshmallow. Preserved lemon. Medium acid.

This is the Tondonia Blanco. @Delectable Wine barely managed to post after half a dozen tries, now won’t let me correct the identified wine.

What a treat—butterscotch, nuts, lemon, slightly oxidative, creamy and full texturally. Could have used maybe slightly more freshness and cut but nitpicking.