2010 Bodegas Roda Reserva Rioja It is ripe

It is ripe

soft and velvety tannins

especially when someone near and dear presents you with a lovely Tiramisu or Mango Mousse cake on your birthday

a year with mostly mid-weight wines built on forward fruit

2010 Bodegas Roda Reserva Rioja It is ripeDeep ruby. Deeply pitched aromas of black raspberry and cherry, with complicating notes of rose oil, pipe tobacco and vanilla. Spicy oak nuances emerge with air and carry onto the palate, which displays sappy dark fruit liqueur flavors and hints of mocha and floral pastilles. The expansive, focused, long finish leaves vanilla and spicecake notes behind. The malo occurred in large French oak casks and the wine was then aged in French oak barriques, 40%