A Wine from Another Time: Doug Frost on the History of Rioja, Part Three
In this, the third and final installment of Doug Frost’s lead up to the first wine of a Rioja seminar held at the Culinary Institute of America’s Greystone campus during that institution’s Worlds of Flavor Conference earlier this year, our esteemed MS/MW takes us up to the modern era, again using the López de Heredia Viña Tondonia ‘81 Blanco Gran Reserva as a point of reference, singling the wine out as coming from another era. It is this wine and this house to which Doug makes reference at the beginning of the clip, as we have just learned that the wine spends 9 and 1/2 years in oak before bottling.
Unfortunately, we’ll have to end it here, since the video of the last part of Doug’s speech, in which he briefly touches on the winemaking mechanics of the ‘International style,’ a later and even more modern development, is unusuable. Once I find a way to put the audio over other images, I may release it as a podcast or as another posted video