Bodegas Roda Sela Rioja 2017
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A red color with a bright red rim. It is intense, fruity and cheerful, with lot of liveliness. Very nice red fruits in the line of fresh cherries. Medium volume and very fine tannin. The fruity sensation is fresh and delicate. It is long and very nice.
Blend: 95%Tempranillo, 3% Graciano and 2% Garnacha
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James Suckling
A juicy, fruity red with blackberry, chocolate and some walnut undertones. It’s full and round-textured. Delicious finish. This is consistently excellent. Drink or hold.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The lightest of the wines here is the 2017 Sela, a wine they think is destined for the by-the-glass market and light foods. It was produced with grapes (mostly Tempranillo but always with small percentages of other grapes, 3% Graciano and 2% Garnacha) fermented with indigenous yeast and matured in French oak barrels for 12 months. It has a clean and precise nose, the house style, with ripe fruit and oak but without any excess, quite balanced and with freshness and enough power. Very tasty and easy to drink.
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A self-financed, objective and detailed vineyard analysis the top 100 sites within Rioja Alta's lowest-yielding, climatically-challenged sub-regions. Vineyard acquisition and grape contract followed strictly upon this model. The bodega facility was then established at the epicenter of the chosen vineyard areas, in Haro's Barrio de la Estacion in plain view of the Conchas rock formation - where the Ebro River dramatically forces its way through the sierra and into this vinous paradise.
Hailed as the star red variety in Spain’s most celebrated wine region, Tempranillo from Rioja, or simply labeled, “Rioja,” produces elegant wines with complex notes of red and black fruit, crushed rock, leather, toast and tobacco, whose best examples are fully capable of decades of improvement in the cellar.
Rioja wines are typically a blend of fruit from its three sub-regions: Rioja Alta, Rioja Alavesa and Rioja Oriental, although specific sub-region (zonas), village (municipios) and vineyard (viñedo singular) wines can now be labeled. Rioja Alta and Alavesa, at the highest elevations, are considered to be the source of the brightest, most elegant fruit, while grapes from the warmer and drier, Rioja Oriental, produce wines with deep color, great body and richness.