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2011 Cirsion, Bodegas Roda, Rioja, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Ready - at best
Luis Gutiérrez
93/100
Product: 20118115971
2011 Cirsion, Bodegas Roda, Rioja, Spain

Description

The 2011 Cirsion is unashamedly modern and ripe, with a very exuberant nose where the oak is perfectly integrated with notes of blackberries, plums, dark cherries and damp earth, peat and a core of violets and blueberries. This is a wine from selected bunches with a special ripeness that they consider produces a wine that needs shorter time in barrel (some eight months) and is accessible and released earlier. Exceptionally in 2012, this wine has 5% of Graciano; until now it’s been a pure Tempranillo.

There will be no Cirsion in 2013 and they have serious doubts about 2014. Next year we will taste that 2012, a special wine they produced to celebrate their 25th anniversary. It will be released in June 2015. It actually feels like the wine closes down in the glass. I believe this wine will benefit from a couple of years in bottle and wouldn’t touch it until 2017. This 2011 is a limited cuvée of 6,114 bottles.
93/100 points Luis Gutierrez, eRobertParker.com #218 Apr 2015
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2011
Maturity Ready - at best
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Bodegas Roda

Critics reviews

Luis Gutiérrez 93/100
The 2011 Cirsion is unashamedly modern and ripe, with a very exuberant nose where the oak is perfectly integrated with notes of blackberries, plums, dark cherries and damp earth, peat and a core of violets and blueberries. This is a wine from selected bunches with a special ripeness that they consider produces a wine that needs shorter time in barrel (some eight months) and is accessible and released earlier. Exceptionally in 2012, this wine has 5% of Graciano; until now its been a pure Tempranillo. There will be no Cirsion in 2013 and they have serious doubts about 2014. Next year we will taste that 2012, a special wine they produced to celebrate their 25th anniversary. It will be released in June 2015. It actually feels like the wine closes down in the glass. I believe this wine will benefit from a couple of years in bottle and wouldnt touch it until 2017. This 2011 is a limited cuve of 6,114 bottles.Luis Gutirrez - 30/04/2015
Luis Gutiérrez, RobertParker.com (Apr 2015)

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
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Bodegas Roda

Our line-up of all the grand Bodegas based around the famous Estación at Haro is now complete. Roda is the youngest and possibly the most dynamic of this illustrious coterie, more in the ‘modern’ camp than their neighbours and favouring French over American oak. Their excellent vintages of 2004 and 2010 really underline the quality of their range.
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