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Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva 2000

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Winery:
Bodegas Muga
Varietals:
Tempranillo , Grenache , Carignane , Graciano
Region:
Spain > Rioja > Rioja Alavesa
Type:
Red Wine
Drink Dates:
Drink Now - 2017
UPC:
615503020006

User Tags:  fresh, tar, stone fruits, earthy, herbaceous, style, aged, (tree) fruit, petroleum, balance 


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The Rioja region of Spain produces one of the world's finest, and most long lived wines: Rioja. Rioja's renaissance, in the latter half of the 19th century, was a direct result of the phyloxera bug that decimated vineyards around the globe. While English merchants came to Rioja to replace their French imports, the wines here actually have much more in common with Chianti. Both wines are blend relying heavily on one grape, in this case Tempranillo. Like Chianti's Sangiovese, Tempranillo usually produces a relatively high acid wine of medium to medium-full body. Tempranillo tends to produce wines with a dusty, leathery edge to its raspberry and blackberry fruit tones. With additions of Graciano, Mazuela and Grancha, the wines of Rioja can take on additional layers of flavor and aroma, but the tradition of extended oak aging for Rioja's great wines contributes to an even more obvious imprint. While the Spaniards have traditionally been fans of the strong vanilla and coconut components that American oak barrels have contributed to Rioja, more and more producers have turned to French oak favoring its more subtle spice tones. Rioja continues to undergo extended aging in barrel with Reserva and Gran Reserva bottlings, representing a producer's highest achievement, spending a minimum of 3 of 5 years respectively in the producer's cellar.

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Source: Zachy's


"The 2000 Prado Enea Gran Reserva is 80% Tempranillo with the balance Garnacha, Mazuela, and Graciano. The wine is aged for one year in oak vats followed by 3 years in new French oak followed by 3 years in bottle prior to release. Dark ruby-colored, the wines appearance reveals a bit of age in a traditional style. It offers up a complex bouquet of cedar, pencil lead, mineral, spice box, and blackberry. On the palate it is elegant with ample sweet, ripe fruit, good flavors and moderate length...92" -WA 02/08


 

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Snooth User: ryanopaz
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Pale maroon in color, the nose on this wine shows sour cherry, rosehips, cardamom and delicate dusty wood. In the mouth this is a wine with impeccable acidity that is juicy and fresh. Wafting spices linger in my mouth at the finish like a kitchen in the midsts of dinner. Fresh cherry flavors with a vibrancy and balance that makes me smile. Near perfect wine.


March 2008

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Snooth User: dista23
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This is supposed to be great rioja. I found it too acid/sour. Definitely would not pay 50 for this again.


January 2009

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Source: Astor Wines
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This traditional Rioja is rich and velvety smooth with fine, dusty tannins and showing black cherry and hints of cassis. It has an earthy side with accents of tar, licorice and a slight bit of mushroom.


 

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Rating: 92/100 - As reviewed by -WA on 02/08


 

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