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López de Heredia Rioja Reserva 'Cubillo', 2017

Name: López de Heredia Rioja Reserva 'Cubillo', 2017
Brand: López de Heredia
SKU: 8423954260108
Price: 32.0 GBP
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Producer López de Heredia

Country Spain

Region Rioja Alta

Tasting Notes

Sour Cherry, Dried Tobacco, Forest Floor and Sweet Spice

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More About López de Heredia Rioja Reserva 'Cubillo', 2017

Cubillo is often the bottle that turns people into López de Heredia fans.

While plenty of Rioja producers have modernised over the years, López de Heredia still do things much as they always have, ageing wines for years before they're released and letting time do most of the work. The result is a Rioja that already has some of the flavours people usually have to wait decades to find.

There's plenty of cherry fruit left, but it's now joined by tobacco leaf, dried herbs, sweet spice, and that slightly savoury, earthy character that makes traditional Rioja so addictive. Every glass seems to reveal something different.

What makes Cubillo so easy to love is that it never feels heavy or showy. It's a wine with plenty going on, but it wears it lightly. The tannins are soft, the acidity keeps everything fresh, and the whole thing feels incredibly comfortable in its own skin.

This is the bottle to open when you're cooking a roast, putting together a cheeseboard, or simply want a red that doesn't need explaining. It has enough complexity to keep wine geeks happy, but it's just as enjoyable if you're only paying half attention.

Traditional Rioja can sometimes sound intimidating. Cubillo is the opposite. It's welcoming, characterful, and very easy to fall for.

Meet the Producer, López de Heredia

López de Heredia

Style: Winery

If Rioja has a living museum, it's López de Heredia. Founded in Haro in 1877, the estate has spent nearly 150 years doing something that most wine regions find almost impossible: resisting fashion. While countless wineries have modernised, reinvented themselves or chased international trends, López de Heredia has remained stubbornly committed to its own way of doing things. In Rioja, where the debate between traditional and modern styles has shaped the region for decades, they remain the standard-bearer for the old school.

The winery sits in Haro's famous Barrio de la Estación, surrounded by some of the biggest names in Spanish wine. Yet even among such company, López de Heredia feels different. Visitors often describe stepping through the doors as stepping backwards in time. The estate still maintains its own cooperage, ages wines in American oak for far longer than most producers would dare, and routinely releases wines years, sometimes decades, after the vintage. Patience isn't part of the philosophy here. It is the philosophy.

The heart of the estate is Viña Tondonia, a historic vineyard planted on a sweeping bend of the River Ebro and acquired in the early twentieth century. Alongside Tondonia sit Bosconia, Cubillo and Gravonia, each contributing its own personality to the range. Tempranillo remains central to the reds, while Viura forms the backbone of some of Spain's most distinctive white wines. These are not wines built around primary fruit or immediate impact. They trade instead in nuance, texture and the slow accumulation of complexity that only comes with time.

What makes López de Heredia so fascinating is that the wines can feel completely out of step with contemporary expectations while remaining utterly timeless. The reds often carry notes of dried fruit, tobacco leaf, cedar, leather and spice long before many producers would even think about releasing them. The whites are perhaps even more remarkable. Oxidative, savoury and astonishingly long-lived, they have become cult favourites among sommeliers and collectors who appreciate wines that refuse to behave as expected.

For many drinkers, López de Heredia is the producer that turns Rioja from a category into an obsession. These are wines that ask for a little patience and curiosity in return for something increasingly rare: a genuine sense of continuity. Not a recreation of tradition, but the real thing.