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Bodegas Muga Torre Muga Rioja 2016 - First Bottle

Reviews

99 Jeb Dunnuck - Read

Even better than the magical 2015, the 2016 Torre Muga offers a thrilling bouquet of cassis and assorted pure dark fruits, lead pencil, graphite, white flowers, and spice-laced aromas and flavors. While this cuvee is always thought of as the most modern in the lineup, it's far from it and has integrated oak, flawless balance, sweet tannins, and a gorgeous finish.

98 James Suckling - Read

The purity of fruit to this is very, very intriguing with blackberries, graphite, and charcoal. Full-bodied. It radiates intense fruit with perfectly polished tannins. Subtle asphalt and blue fruit. Very long and beautiful. Racy. Tempranillo with graciano and mazuelo. Needs two to four years of bottle age. Try after 2021.

97 Tim Atkin - Read

Torre Muga is the most "international" in style of the bodega's reds - controversially so when it was first released in 1991 - and is a cuvée of Tempranillo with 20% Mazuelo and Graciano, aged in 100% new French wood. Using fruit from the "magic triangle" between Villalba, Haro and Labastida, it's plush, aromatic and finely judged with subtle wood, violet top notes, sculpted tannins and the depth and concentration to age. 2022-35

96 Robert Parker's Wine Advocate - Read

I tasted a super young 2016 Torre Muga that had only been in bottle for some four months. But even so, the year seems to be approachable and open. Even if the wine has concentration and power, it has great balance and freshness. And it's drinkable now, even if it's going to get polished with some more time in bottle, where it should have a long life. This was the most modern of the wines in the portfolio, but I think the modern and traditional styles have been converging over the years, and nowadays there is not a huge difference between them. And for its age, it feels quite round, and it doesn't have edges or any harsh tannins; the oak is present but it's neatly integrated in the wine. It has to be one of the finest vintages for Torre Muga.

95 Wine Spectator - Read

This bold red is assertive, yet holds power in reserve. A thick texture, supported by muscular tannins, supports ripe flavors of currant, fig, cocoa, loamy earth and tar. Concentrated, but remains harmonious. Impressive, in the modern style. Best from 2022 through 2036.

Technical Details

Blend75% Tempranillo, 15% Mazuelo and 10% Graciano
CountrySpain
RegionRioja
Aging/Cooperage18 months in new French oak
Alcohol14.5%
Production400 Cases Imported cases

Bodegas Muga Torre Muga Rioja 2016

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JD99: “Even better than the magical 2015, the 2016 Torre Muga offers a thrilling bouquet of cassis and assorted pure dark fruits, lead pencil, graphite, white flowers, and spice-laced aromas and flavors. While this cuvee is always thought of as the most modern in the lineup, it's far from it and has integrated oak, flawless balance, sweet tannins, and a gorgeous finish.”

RIGHT? Bodegas Muga is a family firm founded in 1932 by Isaac Muga and Aurora Cano. The first wines were made in an underground cellar, until in 1968 they decided to set up their own winery in a beautiful old 19th-century town-house situated in the city of Haro. It is the only winery is Spain to retain its own master cooper.

We haven’t had access to these wines for a while, but recently we’re starting to see it again. A MUST for serious Spanish wine lovers -- wow! While it lasts!

PAIRING IDEAS: Riojan cuisine is direct and simple, so do that. This is a no-brainer for lamb, sausage, beef, chorizo, etc in the heartiest ways you can think of.

MUSIC SUGGESTIONS: “Thrilling” is the word of the day, so….the Star Wars complete soundtrack? No? OK, settle for Judas Priest’s “Hell Bent For Leather”, back to back.

About the Producer

Bodegas Muga is a family firm founded in 1932 by Isaac Muga and Aurora Cano. The first wines were made in an underground cellar, until in 1968 they decided to set up their own winery in a beautiful old 19th-century town-house situated in the city of Haro. The Bodegas Muga outstanding feature is that it always uses the finest materials, combining tradition with the latest advances in winemaking so as always to give its wines the very best quality without losing authenticity. Indeed, it is the only wine cellar in Spain that employs its own master cooper and coopers, who make all the vats for the cellar as well as the oak casks. The winery remains true to traditional winemaking methods such as racking the casks by gravity and fining the wine with fresh egg whites. Bodegas Muga has succeeded in combining the purest family tradition with an updated vision of the future which has allowed them to preserve their own personality and character.