R.Lopez de Heredia "Viña Bosconia" Reserva Rioja 2005
R.Lopez de Heredia "Viña Bosconia" Reserva Rioja 2005
open and drink without decant, leather，rounded patate & well balanced.
cherry aroma, crisp acidity but tannin not so impress, medium body.
Region/Appellation : Rioja Alta, Haro, Spain,
Bodegas : BODEGAS R.Lopez de Heredia
grape : Tempranillo
ALC. 1
CLASSIFICATION : DOC RIOJA
fr. Th
94 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
A worthy follow up to the 2004 is the 2005 Viña Bosconia Reserva, a wine that they consider the most rustic and powerful in the winery, but that I find as elegant and subtle as it gets. This feels very much in line with the 2004, maybe a notch above even, a lower yielding year. The nose is somehow closed and feels young with the elegant rusticity lurking from the bottom of the glass, clean and precise. The tannins are velvety and there is great acidity--a constant here. The wine is terribly elegant. I simply loved this wine. 99,000 bottles were filled in June 2011. (LG) 
(8/2016)
K&L Notes
Lopez de Heredia has a well-earned reputation as the stalwart traditionalist of Rioja, along the lines of Mascarello in Barolo, Mayacamas in Napa Valley, or de Montille in Burgundy. What is arguably lost in all the attention paid to traditional winemaking, wine ageing and craft, is that Lopez de Heredia pioneered the single vineyard wine in Rioja, a tradition they still honor with each of their wines. These wines hail from single vineyards -- well-sited, glorious single vineyards. Viña Bosconia Reserva is always more red fruited, with mid-palate intensity and acidity bouncing off each other in a lip smacking display of impeccable balance.
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