Lopez de Heredia, Rioja Crianza 'Cubillo', 2017 SO_Muzard_032824 olive tapenade—but with California clarity

olive tapenade—but with California clarity and just a touch of sunshine in the fruit

expressive wines

the whisky delivers generous aromas of dried fruits

and making wine like a Burgundian: barrel-fermented with native yeasts

and polished

Lopez de Heredia, Rioja Crianza 'Cubillo', 2017 SO_Muzard_032824 olive tapenade—but with California clarityThere is no bigger name in traditional Rioja than Lopez de Heredia. Founded in 1877 in the historic railway district of Haro, this family estate still makes wine as it did in the 19th century: fermented in old oak vats, aged for years in used American oak from its own on site cooperage, and released when it's good and ready. Cubillo is the estate's Crianza, which by any normal measure isn't entry level at all, having spent more than three years in