R. Lopez de Heredia Vina Tondonia

Roger and Sue Jones are the U.K Agents and Distributors for the wines of R Lopez de Heredia, Vina Tondonia and what started as a small listing on their Restaurant List, has now transpired into the full distribution of these wines through a Network of UK Wholesalers and Retail Outlets. This historic Bodegas was set up by Don Rafeal Lopez de Heredia y Landeta, who was sent by boat from Chile at the age of 14 to collect some inheritance from a deceased uncle in Spain, which led to him winning two Military Crosses by the age of 17, banished to France, and then returning to Spain in the late 1860’s with a group of Bordeaux wine makers to sow the seeds for ’The Supreme Rioja’.

‘The wines of R. Lopez de Heredia define traditional Rioja, and they set the standards by which the region's modern reds must be judged. The white Gran Reservas have few parallels in the world of wine, aged for at least 7 years in neutral oak, they are unique, complex and alluring, with marzipan and hazelnut flavours and an electric snap of acidity’ Thomas Mathews, Wine Spectator