Muga Flor de Muga Blanco 2021

94+ points Wine Advocate
The white 2021 Flor de Muga Blanco Reserva sold with the Reserva category, as the market is more and more interested in whites with a long ??levage. It's a white with aging potential and complexity produced with a blend of 40% old-vine Viura, 30% Garnacha Blanca and 30% Maturana Blanca with good ripeness in a great year when the grapes ripened thoroughly and developed full aromas and flavors but kept very good freshness. The free-run juice fermented in small barrels at low temperature, then was kept in concrete eggs for three months and then aged for six months in new barrels crafted by their coopers. It's smoky, spicy and toasty, still very young and undeveloped, primary but open and expressive with balsamic notes of bay leaf, waxy apples and flowers, and it has a seamless and balanced palate with a serious, chalky finish. 23,038 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022

Bodegas Muga?????s new premier Rioja Blanco comprised of 40% Viura, 30% Garnacha Blanca, and 30% Maturana from vineyards planted between 1940-1980. A classic Rioja white wine vinified with three of the region's most important indigenous white varieties. Viura provides weight, structure, and aging potential. Garnacha Blanca imparts texture, alcohol, and acidity. Maturana adds aroma. The bodegas wanted a wine to compete with the best white Burgundies, which they have successfully done. Bravo!

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 for 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.

PRODUCT DETAILS

• SKUPJ00299
• TypeWhite Wine
• CountrySpain
• RegionRioja
• Size750mL
• Vintage2021