Winemaker Notes
The color is a medium layer, with a cherry red background. The nose is very expressive, with aromas of clear red fruit with notes of fresh cherry and raspberry. It has a sweetness of ripe fruit and a certain floral character. The palate is very fruity and full of red freshness. With a certain greedy note that comes from the Grenache. Very fresh aftertaste. It is a warm one, but with the usual freshness of SELA.
Professional Ratings
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Wine & Spirits
This is Roda’s most accessible wine, focused on ripe fruit flavors. It’s all black cherry at the center, supple and rich, savory rather than sweet. The pleasure it offers is simple and straightforward, modern in its clean lines, classical in its tempranillo flavor depths. What’s impressive about the wine is how resistant to oxygen the flavors are, sustaining their freshness over the course of several days.
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James Suckling
A very refined and beautiful wine with fine tannins, lovely fruit and hints of fresh herb and wet earth. Medium body and a long finish. Shows such finesse and complexity. Hitting above its fighting weight. Drink now.
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Wine Spectator
This firm red shows black cherry, plum, licorice, smoke and underbrush flavors, supported by well-integrated tannins and orange peel acidity. Shows depth and focus. Drink now through 2027.
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.