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Muga Rioja Reserva 2005

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Winery:
Bodegas Muga
Varietal:
Tempranillo
Region:
Spain > Rioja
Type:
Red Wine
UPC:
15503100030000,
15503100040000

User Tags:  stone fruits, bottling, cherry, (tree) fruit, nose, fruit, spicy, smooth, resinous, spices 


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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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13.5% alcohol

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Source: Astor Wines
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Rich, black currant-cherry aromas & flavors. A top-value reserve bottling, unfiltered with a smoky, spicy edge.


April 2009

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Source: kybecca


A complex and lush Rioja for lovers of Spanish wine.


June 2009

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Tasting Notes - Bright ruby red wine with medium intensity of colour, giving an impression of liveliness and excellent evolution in the bottle.


May 2009

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Vegetable/pepper nose, moderate tannins, slightly thin palate, long finish that's a little bitter but good.


July 2009

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WA 90pts. - Tasting Notes - Bright ruby red wine with medium intensity of colour, giving an impression of liveliness and excellent evolution in the bottle.


July 2009

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Source: Melange Wines


90 points Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: `The purple-colored 2005 Muga Reserva a blend of 70% Tempranillo 20% Garnacha and the balance Mazuelo and Graciano. It was aged for six months in wood vats followed by two years in new French and American oak. It delivers an alluring nose of cedar tobacco earth notes mineral and black cherry. This is followed by an elegant wine with good depth and enough ripe tannin to evolve for several years. Nicely balanced and long in the finish it will be at its best from 2012 to 2020 if not longer.`


October 2009

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