Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]
Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]
Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]
Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]
Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]

Bodegas Muga "Flor de Muga" Rioja Blanco Reserva 2020
(Rioja, Spain) - [JS 94]


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About the Winery:
Bodegas Muga is Rioja Alta’s premier producer and the Muga family are unanimously considered to be one of Spain’s most important winemaking families. The winery has practically legendary status due to its philosophy revolving around adherence to tradition, dynamism, and winemaking of the highest quality. Few producers in the world fashion wines that have such a sense of tradition and place as Muga’s. The wines of Muga have an absolutely distinct, unique, and inimitable profile.

Varietal: 40% Viura, 30% Garnacha Blanca, 30% Maturana

Vineyards: Proprietary field blend bush vineyards planted at high altitudes.

Year(s) Planted: 1940-1980

Viticulture: Traditional Rioja viticulture. A selection of head trained Garnacha vineyards planted on the viticultural climactic extremes of Rioja Alta.

Soils: Sandy-loam (Maturana), Calcareous clay (Garnacha Blanca) and Calcareous and Ferrous clay (Viura).

Climate: Continental with Atlantic influences.

Winemaking: After brief maceration in the press, the free-run must is selected, the first must which comes out of the press by gravity. This is then fermented at a low temperature in small oak vats. Once fermentation is complete, the wine is left on its fine lees for 3 months in an Oeuf de Beaune (concrete wine egg) to preserve the aromas and give body on the palate.

Aging: 6 months in new French oak casks (Nevers and the Normandy town of Les Loges) with a light toast. After that it will undergo a process of refinement and rounding in the bottle for a further 18 months.

Comments: A classic Rioja white wine vinified with three of the region's most important indigenous white varieties. Viura provides weight, structure, and ageing potential. Garnacha Blanca imparts texture, alcohol, and acidity. Maturana adds aroma.

13.5% ABV

Ratings & Reviews

94 Points - James Suckling:
"Intense aromas of oatmeal, lemon pastry, roasted pineapples and mineral. Fresh, bone-dry and creamy with good volume and substance. 40% viura, 30% garnacha blanca and 30% maturana blanca. Drink now.

95 Points - James Suckling (2019 vintage):
Structured, complex and layered white with medium body and a creamy, phenolic texture. Dried lemons, apricot stones, cedar, flint and sea salt. Long and evolving. Very fresh, too. Fantastic.

94+ Points - Robert Parker's Wine Advocate (2019 vintage):
There are only 37 hectares of Maturana Blanca in Rioja, of which they have eight. It's the same grape as the extinct Ribadavia variety from Galicia. The variety disappeared because it delivers very low yields, but they love the quality when it's picked fully ripe when it still keeps very good acidity. The wine is still a little oaky and powerful, from a warm and dry year, but the palate is electric and almost salty. This is a white that should develop nicely in bottle (I wish I had a time machine!), and as with the rosé, this feels like the finest vintage to date... only the second one

93 Points - Jeb Dunnuck (2018 vintage):
The 2018 Flor de Muga Blanco checks in as equal parts Viura, Malvasía Riojana, and Garnacha Blanca. It reveals a medium gold hue as well as a richer, spicy, subtly oaked bouquet of orchard and citrus fruits, green almond, and chalky minerality. This beauty is medium-bodied, has good mid-palate concentration, bright acidity, and a great finish. I wouldn't be surprised to see it have an interesting evolution over the coming decade or more.