Lopez Heredia Vina Tondonia Rioja Gran Reserva Red 1995

This is 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacho and 5% each Graciano and Mazuelo wine. It has a nose of sweet spices, underbrush and cigar ash, somewhat balsamic, bramble fruit with perfect ripeness, integrated and young but starting to show some tertiary complexity. The palate is velvety and medium-bodied, with fine-grained, chalky tannins denoting a limestone soil that brings finesse and texture and a sapid, tasty, almost salty finish.