Honorio Rubio Añadas (bottled 2018).
100% Viura. Bold and flavorful. Pears, apricots, vanilla, white flowers, honey, and slight oxidative walnut notes. It reminds me of an aged LdH. Great acidity to balance the density.
This is a throwback to ancestral traditions, made from a multi-vintage solera. Aged 11 years in 95% French oak and 5% Bulgarian acacia. I sadly can no longer access these. It is truly an exceptional, world class white wine.
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I was not aware of this wine but it sounds excellent. From a quick search, it definitely looks difficult to find!
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K&L carries this producer and to me the entry level cuvee is very much like a baby Tondonia blanco.
Looks like they only have the orange wine for now:
https://www.klwines.com/p/i?i=1610001&searchId=9eb24374-8e02-412c-96cc-0244e94bce30&searchServiceName=klwines-prod-productsearch&searchRank=1
I’ve liked their wines, all of mine came from K&L, but they haven’t been carrying as many. There is also a Rosado that can be pretty interesting.
-Al
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This is definitely a great wine, but to my understanding, they use a perpetual blend, not a Solera system, which is a different system altogether. I’ve always hated how beer brewers describe their multi-lot barrel-aged beers as “Solera Aged” beers, even if they use just one barrel and now apparently we’re seeing this same thing with wines as well.
I’ve understood that the producer has said he was inspired by the old style of Rioja by blending multiple vintages into one barrel-aged wine, but he never describes this system as Solera or Solera-like, but apparently many importers, webshops and reviewers do. Rubs me the wrong way.
Anyways, I’ve still got one bottle of this. The wine was very lovely in its youth and I’m very interested to see where this wine goes with some additional bottle age. It might not be at the level of Castillo Ygay Gran Reserva Especial Blanco or Heredia’s whites, but probably right after those, at 3rd place!
Sounds very interesting… and just found that it is available here en Denmark for 32 euro. Was planning on not buying anything else than Balthazar until 2023… 
Lasse,
Don’t forget the “under 35 euro” exception to your purchasing moratorium! Buy it and let me know if you agree. I’m confident you’ll try it then buy more.
Cheers,
Warren
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Interesting wine. Superb photo.
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The only thing that makes me even touch my brakes on this wine is the heavy oak. I think it will integrate with time, and boy does it need it.
I will probably buy a few and let you know 
I’m quite sure this is one of the times you’ll act on the instinct and not regret later. 
Honestly, that’s one superb wine.
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Final opened one. I like it and will make a note on it in a day or two when the bottle is empty.
But it seems like they changed their name after some investments. For some reason or another, they decided not to write when this was bottled on the back… does anyone know? I can only guess 2020-2022 as I’ve seen back labels stating 18 and 19.
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Their back labels aren’t very informative. The ones I bought some years ago were bottled in 2018, but that info was on a back label added by the US importer. They don’t appear to be imported to US at present. If they changed their name it would be great to know the details, because definitely put out interesting Rioja whites and rosados. I still have a couple Anadas and two or three of another white labeled Lias Finas (single vintage).
-Al
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Seems like the domaine changed name to Bodega 220 Cántaras in 2022.
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