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IronGate Fine Wine Auction

Tue, Sep 17, 2024 10:00AM EDT - Tue, Sep 24, 2024 08:00PM EDT
  • 2012
  • 750ml
  • Spain
  • Rioja
  • Tempranillo Blend
  • Rose
  • II1396
  • II1401
Lot 762

2012 R Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rosado Gran Reserva Rioja - 6 bottle(s)-750ml

Estimate: CAD$840 - CAD$1,200

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CAD$100,000 CAD$10,000
This lot is comprised of 6 bottle(s) of 2012 R Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rosado Gran Reserva Rioja - 750ml. Estimate for this lot is between $840 - $1200 with a reserve of $600. The wine in this lot belongs to collection 11525.

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An Ontario based consignor who grew up in a household where wine was always on the dinner table, he developed a taste for it early on. In 2010 he began to take collecting seriously after having tasted older vintages of Pichon Lalande and Latour. He started by sourcing wine at the LCBO but quickly turned to buying from agents, auctions, the SAQ, and retailers in the United States and Europe. Bottles have been stored in a climate -controlled cellar.
The tasting note for 2012 R Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia Rosado Gran Reserva Rioja is from Robert Parker and the score is 96+ - I love the rosé 2012 Viña Tondonia Rosado Gran Reserva, perhaps the finest vintage (together with the 2010) of the modern releases produced again since 2008. It's a textbook example of this unusual rosé a blend of 60% Garnacho (they use the masculine form of the name of the grape), 30% Tempranillo and 10% Viura that matured in American oak barrels for four years, during which time the wine acquired an orange color and a nutty nose with notes of candied orange peel, mushroom and forest floor. It's only 12.5% alcohol and has a pH of 3.3. 15,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in April 2018.