In the glass
Aroma: white peach, citrus, fennel, subtle toast, mineral
Palate: stone fruit, citrus, creamy texture, saline
The estate's barrel-fermented white from old Viura and Garnacha Blanca: textured, savoury and mineral, a serious modern white Rioja.
What it pairs with
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Bacalao al pil pil
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Salt cod meets the white's creamy texture. -
Roast hake
Oven hake handles the barrel-fermented depth. -
Txangurro al horno
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Baked spider crab lifts the wine's citrus savour.
History
Roda Blanco is the estate's barrel-fermented white from old Viura and Garnacha Blanca.
- 2017 — Roda Blanco introduced
Facts
- Producer
- Bodegas Roda
- Grapes
- Viura (60%), Garnacha Blanca (40%)
- Classification
- DOCa Rioja
- Oak
- Fermented and aged in French oak with lees work
- ABV
- 13.5%
- Price
- EUR 30 to 50 at retail
- Drinking window
- 3 to 12 from vintage
- First vintage
- 2017
Scores
- Tim Atkin 92 (2020 vintage, reviewed 2022)