Bodegas Roda is undoubtedly one of the most exciting new developments on the Spanish wine scene to have occurred for decades. A true super-winery offering three different wines that are nothing less than astonishing.

At the very cutting edge of the new Spain, these are wines that help define the direction for the fine wines of Iberia. That they come from Rioja is far from coincidental - the heartland of the best Tempranillo that Spain had produced for centuries, but it is not necessarily Roda's aim to make the best Rioja, but rather to be authors of the very best wines possible.

To this end, Mario Rotllant and Carmen Daurella commissioned an exhaustive analysis of best vineyard sites in La Rioja Alta. They found seventeen separate vineyards that produced superlative fruit and purchased the land or signed long-term contracts with their owners.

These seventeen vineyards, between 30 and 90 years old, are meticulously farmed and the grapes are vinified separately until it is decided which of the Roda range wines the fruit will become. Naturally the yields are kept extraordinarily low to maximise concentration.

The end results are amazingly deeply structured, flavour some wines that win the heart of all those who try them.