Our Wine Director, David Allen MW, tastes the second of three wines from the renowned Rioja producer, Bodegas Muga. Here he tastes a bottle of their 2016 Torre Muga.
Bodegas Muga is a family-owned wine estate, founded in 1932 in Haro, in the Rioja Alta sub-region of Spain's Rioja region. It is particularly known for its traditional style Reserva wines that are only produced in vintages of utmost quality.
The famous bodega has approximately 250 hectares (617 acres) of vineyards around Rioja a majority of which are around the town of Haro where the winery is based. Fruit for the top wines tends to come from the family’s original Baltracones vineyard, where the chalky, alluvial soils are well-suited to Tempranillo and Garnacha.
Muga's winery has four fermentation rooms with wooden vats varying considerably in capacity, allowing the winemakers to process different parcels of grapes separately. Oak is important in the winemaking process – Muga is one of the few producers in Spain with its own cooperage. This is the only one of the three wines to age in small barrels and spends 18 moths in French (Allier forest ) oak.
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