Bodegas Roda, D.O Rioja (La Rioja Alta)
The team at Roda are not merely dedicated, they are detail-obsessed. Perhaps the most impressive (mahogany-scented) winery I've set foot in; everything is about the production and retention of grape quality - the modern approach to wine through viticulture is nowhere given more commitment.
All of the fruit is off vineyards in excess of 30 years (some up to 80 years old), grown organically. Fermentation in foudre, and aged in French barrels, with a minimum of oxidative handling, and neither filtered nor fined. Significantly, each vintage is made "on its merits" - work levels, style, etc are responses to vintage realities - not applications of a recipe.
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Rioja |
$55.00 |
6 |
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Aromatically a highly expressive wine with well-defined fruit character and fresh red berry-cherry, rosehip, chocolate, tobacco and fivespice complexities. Youthful, lively, carefree personality yet complex and serious with slight mineral notes. The palate is very fruity, with the same red berry fruit sensations found on the nose with fine tannin giving silkiness. Juicy red cherry bon-bon and a little soft chocolate underneath, medium-bodied with no hollow on the mid-palate, which is the hallmark of this winery. 95% Tempranillo with Graciano. |
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Rioja |
$105.00 |
6 |
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Red bean paste, forest mulch, tobacco, violets, nut husk … the red+black fruits palate continues with amazing freshness and balance. Less creamy on palate than the 05s; a nice sense of crispness works into the back stretch where fine oak, natural acid, a long mineral flourish, Roda's trademark amazing velvet fruit tannins and a boof of purple florals all feature in a quiet riot. Composed, sensual and taut, packed with complex flavour and textures, it's a supremely delicate and deft wine. 97% Tempranillo and a little Graciano. |
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Rioja |
$70.00 |
12 |
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Rioja |
$220.00 |
3 |
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Rioja |
$155.00 |
6 |
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All blue-black and sooo beautiful to smell: black animale meat'n'blood, plus road metal minerals gain pretty violet/neralie florals and a lash of mineral. The palate features astonishing tannin maturity, great spiciness with fine fine oak tucked way in at the back, while the fruit runs in the plum and cola range. It's power with enormous finesse and unfolds like a perfectly told story. Really wonderful wine, 100% Tempranillo. |
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Rioja |
$110.00 |
12 |
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Rioja |
$330.00 |
3 |
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Rioja |
$540.00 |
1 |
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Product of a fanatical research into fruit tannins, Cirsion is born with wine-like ripe, long tannins, needing relatively little softening. It is marvelous-great velvet-&-violet juice cut with perfect pithy tannins; with nerve from ripe acid, earthily spiced, dry and rolling. 100% Tempranillo. A 'grand cru' anywhere in the world. |
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