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Community Tasting Notes 95
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Neecies Likes this wine:
April 17, 2024 - My bottle, carried home from Spain in 2017. Decanted, filtered and returned to the bottle a few hours before the tasting. Black cherry fruit, chocolate, coffee and oak. Oak on the heavy side in a way that would have been just fine with a big steak but it didn't show well in a parade of more judiciously oaked wines (I was afraid of that). Shows its age.
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nigelb Likes this wine: 91 points
February 19, 2024 - Briar fruits on nose. Chocolate/coffe/oak. Fresh and clean on palate with juicy red fruits. Taut; ring-fenced with oak overtones. Fine, evident tannins but initially a little hollow in the fruit core. Tannins and oak show. A lovely wine but incomplete in some way for me. Some intrigue, subtlety, complexity and BITE.
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Zweder Likes this wine: 92 points
January 16, 2024 - Beautiful bouquet with dark berries and sweet spices. On the palate a slightly sweet start, chocolate good acidity and round tannin. There is some development, but the wine is not tired yet.
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Milos wrote: 93 points
September 12, 2023 - No detailed notes taken. Drank over 3 days and the wine just kept improving. Started somewhat disjoined but pulled together at the end to a very enjoyable wine. I suggest another 5 years at least. Score assumes potential will be reached.
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siewguowei wrote: 92 points
April 19, 2023 - Deep ruby - surprising for its 19 years of age
Pronounced nose of blackberries, plum, stewed fruit, warm spice, chocolate, vanilla, dried fruit.
High alcohol, high acid, high tannin, flavors of the above, plus cigarette, ash, menthol.
Tremendously balanced wine with amazing mouthfeel, unfortunately finish is inexplicably short.
Great wine but I wish flavors were more expressive and sharper.
(Postscript: after decanting the wine for 24 further hours, the wine opened up, engulfing the nose with stewed fruit flavors, and extending the finish to a nice medium plus)
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By Richard Jennings
10/17/2012 (link) 91 points(Bodegas Roda Rioja Roda I Reserva) Dark ruby color; baked cherry, ripe cherry nose; ripe cherry, juniper, red berry palate; medium-plus finish 91+ points (16 mos in American oak)
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By Richard Jennings
10/13/2010 (link) 93 points(Bodegas Roda Rioja Roda I Reserva) Black fruit, berry, licorice nose; black fruit, berry, licorice palate; medium-plus finish
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2004
- Type Red
- Producer Bodegas Roda
- Varietal Tempranillo
- Designation Roda I Reserva
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Spain
- Region La Rioja
- SubRegion n/a
- Appellation Rioja
- UPC Codes 737686120011, 8436538810385, 8437007600179, 8437007600704
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 12 (1%)
- In Cellars 878 (58%)
- Consumed 630 (41%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
Red meat, Tasted with cherry wood smoked (Traeger) farm raised Atlantic salmon (Whole Foods) which was a great match.Who Likes This Wine
100% Like It 39 votes
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- RegionLa Rioja
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