2004 Bodegas Muga Rioja Torre Muga

Community Tasting Notes (124) Avg Score: 92.5 points

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  12/12/2023 - Wine Canuck wrote: 92 Points

  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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  10/2/2023 - spendergast Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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  9/16/2023 - #1 or #2? Likes this wine: 94 Points

  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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  7/30/2023 - Putnam Weekley Likes this wine: 95 Points

  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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  9/17/2022 - Genghis88 Likes this wine: 92 Points

  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!!!!

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