R. LÓPEZ de HEREDIA VIÑA GRAVONIA RIOJA BLANCO 2016

Vina Gravonia is a celebrated white Rioja wine from Lopez de Heredia. Their whites again can age for decades and offer a totally different experience than anything else from Rioja or elsewhere. 100% Viura, aged for 2 years in oak and 8 years in the bottle. Nutty Sherry-like aroma with delicious notes of beeswax, sesame seed, white peach and tangerine. One of the most uniquely delicious white wines found anywhere in the world.

95/100 Luis Gutierrez, RobertParker.com, February 2024 (2016 Vintage)
"2016 was a superb vintage in Rioja, and the 2016 Viña Gravonia Blanco, which has the cellar aroma that all the wines, especially the whites, have, due to the longer time the wines spend in barrel. The white vines in this vineyard are now 92 years old and their juice was fermented in old oak vats with indigenous yeasts. They explained, "We have never used selected yeasts." It was matured in their well-seasoned American oak barrels for four years. It's paler than any of the other whites, and it has a little less pungency, with very good freshness. It's elegant, subtle, clean and ethereal. They had good yields and a good climatic year. 42,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022. I give these wines a conservative drinking window, but they will probably last much longer. 2025 – 2032."