Bodegas Roda - Roda 1 Reserva 2020

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Tim Atkin

Guia Peñin

Robert Parker Wine Advocate

The flagship 2020 Roda I has a nose of black fruit and spices with hints of licorice and aromatic herbs, with depth and complexity, still very young and undeveloped. It's mostly Tempranillo and 8% Graciano fermented with indigenous yeasts and matured in French oak barrels, half of them new, for 16 months. It reveals a powerful nose with good ripeness, reaching 14.5% alcohol but keeping its poise with a good pH and acidity, coming through as medium to full-bodied with juicy berry fruit and abundant, slightly dusty tannins. 119,200 bottles produced. It was bottled in July 2023.

Roda, a winery created in 1987 in the Barrio de la Estación in Haro, works 120 hectares of vineyards, of which they own 70, mostly in the surroundings of Haro, to produce 400,000 bottles of classical-modern wines. They are releasing wines from 2020, 2021 and 2022 this year.

James Suckling

Such a delicious reserva that has huge depth of fruit, dark minerals and cocoa powder. Full-bodied and powdery on the palate, with stacks of glossy black fruit. Juicy and really long. Modern, for sure, with lots of fruit and youthful color. You can call it Roda's neoclassical style. Drink or hold.