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Muga Rioja Reserva Unfiltered 2021 750ml

Name: Muga Rioja Reserva Unfiltered 2021 750ml
Brand: Muga
SKU: 615503100104
Price: 32.99 USD
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Bodegas Muga is a family winery in Haro, the historic wine town of Rioja Alta. Muga keeps its own cooperage, where it makes the casks that age its wines, and it ferments in wooden vats.

The 2021 blends Tempranillo with Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano from calcareous clay soils. It spent 24 months in Muga's own casks, 80% French and 20% American oak with about a fifth new, according to Wine Advocate. It's fined with fresh egg whites, rests at least 12 months in bottle before release, and is 14.5% alcohol.

Muga describes wild forest fruit such as blackberry and blueberry with hints of spice, an elegant, balanced palate, soft tannins and a very long, fruity finish. Wine Advocate calls it a textbook example of the house style in a very good year.

Against Marqués de Murrieta Reserva, Muga is the oak-vat-fermented Reserva from Haro at the same price; for traditional Rioja Alta character, choose Muga.

Muga says it drinks well now and will keep for several years. Serve it with ribeye, charcuterie or a slow-cooked casserole.

Browse more Rioja and Tempranillo and our Spanish wine. Pick it up at our Brooklyn store or get same-day delivery across NYC.

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Product Detail

Varietal: Red

Grape Variety: Tempranillo

Wine Body: Medium-Bodied

Brand: Muga

Size: 750 mL

Vintage: 2,021

Country: Spain

Region: Rioja

Alcohol Percentage: 14.5%

Awards

94 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
"The grapes for the 2021 Reserva (sold as Crianza in Spain), mostly Tempranillo with some Garnacha Tinta, Mazuelo and Graciano, were picked late in a cooler year when they finished the harvest the 20th of October, with plenty of times for the grapes to develop full aromas and flavors and complete ripeness. It fermented destemmed and lightly crushed in oak vats with indigenous yeasts, separating qualities, villages and soils, and matured in 80% French and 20% American oak barrels, 20% of them new, for 24 months, with racking every eight to nine months. It's a textbook example of their style in a very good year, with power, concentration and clout, elegance and freshness. It was a very harmonious year; the cycle was long and the tannins ripened to perfection."

94 Jeb Dunnuck
"The winery’s flagship, the wine that introduced Muga to the world, the 2021 Muga Reserva is Tempranillo-dominant, with Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano filling in the gaps. A larger-production wine, it offers tremendous quality, fermented in wooden vats using indigenous yeasts, the grapes separated by quality, soil type, and village origin. This one in particular is from a beautiful vintage and practically beams in full-bodied concentration, with supple, silky tannins and light touches of oak spice, cedar, balsamic, and white pepper."

93 James Suckling
"A plush yet fresh Rioja..."

92 Vinous
"Dry, with fine, slightly chalky tannins and a juicy core"