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Hello, Xina has been away on a business trip but returned safe and apparently sound tonight. I had made a small spring meal consisting of noix de St Jaques in fuku ... furu ... Japanese thingy with sesame seeds etc, asparagus, and lentils (de Puy) with a parma ham chip (dried/toasted at 225 degrees centigrade). Tried a Fronholz Gwz Ostertag 2003 as a appetizer but was, unfortunately, corked beyond redemption.' With the mussles, Cape Mentelle 2003 Sauv Blanc/Semillon. Very good, rose hips, hawthorn, bees wax, nice, perky acidity and great body - loved it, will buy on sight ... After the downer with the Ostertag, we decided to take a glass of red, so, why not Spanish? yes, Spanish. Roda II 1999. Nose quite like a Bandol, barnyard, evolves into violets, a bit of ... well, high moor, in SOuthern France or similar. Herby, possibly a bit meagre in the body but a very good wine. Recommended.

Cheers

Nils

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren
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"Nils Gustaf Lindgren" wrote in news:D5uYh.39545$ snipped-for-privacy@newsb.telia.net:

Isn't it great for our payments balance that wine lovers throughout the world start asking themselves "why not Spanish"? ;-)))

Those barnyard notes you found in Roda II 1999 are very typical of Roda and, for me, they are a defect. Sometimes they dissipate with aireation, sometimes they do not. In my limited experience, they affect Roda I more than Roda II, perhaps because Roda I is more concentrated.

BTW, Roda II is not longer marketed under that name. From 2003 (if memory serves), the lineup of the winery is Roda, Roda I and Cirsion (the II dissappears from the label).

S.

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santiago

I don't know this wine Nils, where is it originating from?

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Mike Tommasi

Hello Mike, How they're hanging? Roda II is a Rioja reserva, 60 % new French oak, a blednd of mostly tempranillo, some 25-30 % garnacha, and a small amount (10?%) of graciano. The cantina is in Haro.

I bought this on the Barcelona airport in November, mostly because it ahd a certain age (not what I would call _old_, mind you).

The barnyardy smell is what makes it reminiscent of a Bandol - they tend in that direction - plus the presence of garnacha - I would guess - however, there must be differneces in the Spanish garnacha and the French grenache, they went their separate ways some centuries ago, didn't they? After all, malbec in Cahors and in Argentina are not exactly similar, and they have been subject to massal selection how long -100 years?

You might be a better person to have an informed opinon,. what with having taken part in that grenache workshop in ... Montpellier, if memory serves me well.

Cheers

Nils

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Nils Gustaf Lindgren

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