2016 Cirsion
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Released much earlier than the rest of the wines, the 2016 Cirsion is produced with very ripe grapes that they think need less time in oak, and the wine is therefore bottled and released earlier. It's a blend of Tempranillo with 11% Graciano matured in new French barriques for eight months, bottled and released ten months later. This is young and heady, explosive, with plenty of ripe fruit and a hedonistic profile. It has abundant, very fine tannins and a good thread of acidity going through its core that lifts the finish. It's unashamedly modern and showy. 12,500 bottles were filled in March 2018.
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James Suckling
Jancis Robinson MW
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This is the new 2001. Superb. Amazing aromas and flavors of dark fruit, spice, tobacco, fresh herbs and dark berries. It goes on for minutes on the palate. Full-bodied, tight and chewy. Superb structure. Needs at least three or four years to soften. Better in 2021.
A cold winter preceded a fairly dry 2016 vegetative cycle; total rainfall was 409 mm, mostly in spring but at the end of the growing season, in September, there was a significant increase in temperature with a storm that favoured ripening. ‘A year of perfect maturation, with Mediterranean influence and great wines.’ Very good year for quantity and quality. Fermentation in French oak vats with temperature control. Malo in French oak barriques. Intense, pure nose. Bone dry with a lightly malty streak. Clean and pure. Pretty long and very fresh. Fine tannins and certainly drinkable at this point though you’d be well advised to wait. (JR)
This is the new 2001. Superb. Amazing aromas and flavors of dark fruit, spice, tobacco, fresh herbs and dark berries. It goes on for minutes on the palate. Full-bodied, tight and chewy. Superb structure. Needs at least three or four years to soften. Better in 2021.
About the producer
While being one of the youngest estates in Rioja, Bodegas Roda has quickly become one of its finest and certainly most innovative. The estate was set up in 1987. The name Roda is the contraction of the two owners’ names, Mario Rottlant Solá and Carmen Daurella Aguilera