In the glass
Aroma: black cherry, blueberry, violet, graphite, sweet spice
Palate: silky black fruit, fine-grained tannin, mineral, savoury
Roda's icon: selected old-vine Tempranillo with super-ripe, plush tannins yet remarkable freshness, aged briefly in new French oak to preserve fruit purity.
What it pairs with
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Venison loin
Dark game meets Cirsion's plush black fruit and graphite. -
Chuleton de buey a la brasa
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A char-grilled aged-beef chop for Roda's icon wine. -
Aged hard cheese
Crystalline cheese sharpens the long mineral finish.
History
Cirsion is Roda's icon wine, born from a study of grape ripeness that selects only berries with perfectly ripe tannins, made in tiny quantities.
- 1998 — First Cirsion vintage following Roda's tannin-ripeness research
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Roda
- Grapes
- Tempranillo (100%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Around 8 to 9 months in new French oak
- ABV
- 14.5%
- Price
- EUR 200 to 350 at retail
- Drinking window
- 8 to 25 from vintage
- First vintage
- 1998
Scores
- Tim Atkin 96 (2017 vintage, reviewed 2022)