In part 1 of this blog I wrote about my introduction to this bastion of tradition among bodegas in Rioja. We pick up the story about the most distinctive of their wines, the Viña Tondonia Blanco Gran Reserva. This aged white wine, like the red Gran Reserva, spends nearly ten years maturing in barrel, during…

This blog is an adaptation of an article published in La Revue du vin de France (Mandarin Edition) in January 2013. Some of you will already know everything I have to say about the wines of this bodega, and to these readers I say: please feel free to move on. But I suspect some of…