López de Heredia, Rioja Blanco Reserva 'Viña Tondonia' 2011

When it comes to Rioja, describing López de Heredia always ends up feeling like emptying out a grab-bag of superlatives – most traditional, most important, most age-worthy – and the list goes on. We’ll save everyone some time and boil it down to this: López is the only Rioja we drink.

This white wine from López ages in old oak barrels for six years, leading to rich, nutty, almost caramel-like flavors. All that in a dry white made from a relatively boring grape called viura. That’s López for you.