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Red
2004 Bodegas Muga Rioja Torre Muga
Tempranillo Blend
- Spain
- La Rioja
- La Rioja Alta
- Rioja
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Community Tasting Notes 124
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Wine Canuck wrote: 92 points
December 12, 2023 - Tuesday night blinds: [Tasted Double Blind] This pours deep ruby, opaque, with light bricking at the rim. The nose is deep and rich, clearly showing some warmth while maintaining old world sensibility. The nose is of ripe dark plum, stewed cherry, brown sugar, shoe polish, leather, light VA, hay, and mint. The palate is also deep and rich on entry, with firm medium tannin and medium acid. The finish is moderate in length built on the dark fruit with light hay and leather accents. Despite it's somewhat modern leanings I really enjoyed this wine and found it quite nice. The VA, leather, and shoe polish had me thinking this was a slightly modern Brunello di Montalcino. Upon reveal I was surprised on two levels. One, that this was Rioja given zero American Oak, but clearly this is aged in French Oak only with explains that. And two that this was Torre Muga, a cuvee that I'd typically think is too modern for me. Well done and thoroughly enjoyable.
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spendergast Likes this wine: 95 points
October 2, 2023 - An excellent Rioja and this wine has evolved since my last tasting in 2008. Concentrated dark fruit with notes of black raspberry, cassis, graphite with hints of spice. Nice mouthfeel with long finish.
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#1 or #2? Likes this wine: 94 points
September 16, 2023 - fantastic nose showing age with hints of mossy understory, mushroom, leather and a touch of cola. with air, the palate expands to deliver more fruit than you'd expect for juice nearly two decades old, but also elegance and velvety smooth texture with some nice mineral nuance and meaty charcuterie. there's an attractive iodine note woven into the lengthy finish.
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Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 points
July 30, 2023 - Fantastic. Dense, impacted sheets of poppyseeed and black berry. Ripe. Yielding and stoic. Rippling with herb and seasoned wood action. I swear I am more a Muga sceptic than an apologist—where is that chip that was on my shoulder?
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Genghis88 Likes this wine: 92 points
September 17, 2022 - Shorter decant this time. SO much better than my last bottle.
Super dark, like staring into the abyss.
Full bodied.
Dusty. Hints of dark fruit. Some charcuterie. Sangre. Iodine. Chewy!
Thick. Tastes like the nose. Longish finish. Really powerful, expressive wine. Just gorgeous. In its zone. Drink NOW!!!!1 person found this helpful Comment
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Add a Pro ReviewThe World of Fine Wine
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September 2010, Issue #29 (link)
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By Jancis Robinson, MW
8/14/2008 (link)(Muga, Torre Muga Reserva Rioja Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Julia Harding, MW
1/10/2008 (link)(Muga, Torre Muga Rioja Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Julia Harding, MW
1/9/2008 (link)(Muga, Torre Muga Rioja Red) Subscribe to see review text.
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By Josh Raynolds
September/October 2007, IWC Issue #134 (link)(Bodegas Muga Rioja Torre Muga) Subscribe to see review text.
Sommelier Journal
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By Doug Krenik, MS, CWE
May 2009 (link)(Bodegas Muga Torre Muga) Named for the tower at the Muga winery in Rioja Alta, this bottling, introduced in 1991, has always displayed a more modern, international style than the traditional Muga labels. The 2004 is a blend of 75% Tempranillo, 15% Mazuelo, and 10% Graciano, aged for three months in large wooden vats, then for 18 months in new French oak. The wine has an exotic nose of wild berries, new oak, and graphite. Spicy and incredibly sexy, this is plush Rioja. Rioja: Still the Benchmark for Spanish Wine
Wine Library TV
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By Gary Vaynerchuk
Episode 500 Live from SF in Front of a Huge Audience, Episode #500, 7/14/2008 (link) 89+ points(Torre Muga Rioja) #2; VaynerPAZZZ; COLOR-dark; NOSE-loaded w/ oak; complete vanilla; over-oaked; TASTE-this is dry; great black fruit; loads of plum; way too much oak and vanilla; over oaked and over extracted; JM-96; WS-95; GV-89+
Wine Definition
- Vintage 2004
- Type Red
- Producer Bodegas Muga
- Varietal Tempranillo Blend
- Designation Torre Muga
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Spain
- Region La Rioja
- SubRegion La Rioja Alta
- Appellation Rioja
- UPC Codes 615503125046, 615503125091, 8414542004044, 8414542125046, 8414542125107
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 4 (0%)
- In Cellars 1,551 (54%)
- Consumed 1,325 (46%)
Food Pairing
Community Recommendations
Eggplant Parmesan, Flying Pig Delivery, PaellaWho Likes This Wine
100% Like It 45 votes
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- ProducerBodegas Muga
- VarietyTempranillo Blend
- DesignationTorre Muga
- CountrySpain
- RegionLa Rioja
- SubRegionLa Rioja Alta
- AppellationRioja
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