94 points Wine Advocate
The 2015 Viña Bosconia Reserva shows a darker color and a riper profile. It was a warm year, and the grapes were picked quite ripe. They struggled a little with the fermentations, and they had different lots and had to play with the blending and the percentages of other vintages that were allowed to be blended in the wine so it would be a more balanced wine with 13.5% alcohol, a pH of 3.3 and 6.7 grams of acidity. It was produced with a blend of 80% Tempranillo, 15% Garnacho and the remaining 5% Graciano and Mazuelo, fermented in old oak vats with their yeasts and matured in those vats and in neutral American oak barrels over seven years. It also has some more rustic tannins, without the silky texture of some of its siblings. 85,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in March 2023. Drink Date: 2026 - 2042

López de Heredia is releasing their Gran Reserva wines from 2005, now 21 years after the harvest. I tasted with María José López de Heredia, who was worried about the climate—even in Rioja, they are suffering the consequences—and how to keep contained alcohol in the wines. She was also worried about artificial intelligence and the digitalization of the world. But she's very happy with her wines, selling them like never before, and getting the recognition from consumers around the world. But she's also aware about the speculation with highly sought-after wines.

At the time, she hated 2015 because the red wines seemed overripe early on, perhaps the beginning of the warm vintages, but the wines now show balance. It was different for whites, because the 2015 whites were picked with good freshness. She compared 2004, 2005 and 2006 with 1994, 1995 and 1996. She says she always liked 2005, which she thought was a more powerful year, while 2024 was a little cooler. They didn't produce Gran Reserva in 2026, so the next vintage for the Gran Reserva bottlings will be 2007, when the three wines will come back. But she also insisted that there are not that many differences from vintage to vintage, because they want the wines to have a similar profile ("we have never released a Tondonia wine with 14% alcohol; we have never done it, and we will never do it"), even blending some vintages to keep the profile, especially the lower alcohol. - Luis Gutierrez March 2026

91 points Vinous Media
Drinking window: 2026 - 2040
After five years in barrel, the 2015 Reserva Viña Bosconia (80% Tempranillo with Garnacha, Graciano and Mazuelo) was bottled in March 2023. Evolved oak tones, vanilla and tertiary nuance emerge on the nose, alongside lively black fruit and finely judged wood. Dry and lightly chalky, the palate reflects the warmth of the vintage with a riper expression. It is aromatically a touch less intricate than in cooler years, a consequence of the warm growing season.

Its impossible to understand Rioja without tasting López de Heredia. For more than 60 years, the estate has produced wines in a remarkably consistent style, using distinctive methods of vineyard management and élevage. Only American oak is used—both in large and small formats—and the wines undergo long, oxidative aging to achieve a gently balanced profile. This oxidative approach slows evolution significantly. I tasted a few wines from the 1960s and 1970s during my visit that made that point clear. The continuity between past and present is striking, especially in the white Viña Tondonia. - Joaquin Hidalgo April 2026