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Red
2005 Bodegas Muga Rioja Aro
Tempranillo Blend
- Spain
- La Rioja
- La Rioja Alta
- Rioja
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Community Tasting Notes 19
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Milos Likes this wine: 94 points
December 16, 2023 - No detailed notes taken. Company’s Christmas dinner. This was the standout among the red wines. Dark red and black fruit notes with earthy notes complexity. Palate is focused with intense fruit flavours and corresponding acidity. Long. Just beginning to approach drinking window. I would give it another 10 year or more to reach its peak.
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Ernestas Likes this wine: 95 points
January 13, 2023 - Gorgeous Rioja and a top wine from Muga, vines being planted since 1926. Its a Tempranillo blend with hefty 30% Graciano, aged for 18 months in new FR oak. Deep opaque garnet red. Intense complex aroma of smoked cold cuts, leather, rubber, tar, earth, dried black cherries and plums, incense. Full body, complex, concentrated and deep layered flavours of dried fruit, chocolate, spiced and smoked meat. It concludes long, smoky and persistent with fine grained well structured tannins.
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sdr Likes this wine: 91 points
May 14, 2022 - In a good spot with more structure and intensity than the other Spanish wines tonight, including 2003 Flor de Pingus and 2001 Elios Mora. Gritty and even coarse due to firm tannins with darker fruit than the others. If you like this style you will rate it considerably higher.
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K&J Likes this wine: 95 points
August 22, 2021 - Big, rich, bold fruit driven wine with a medium to long finish. It is drinking very well now. Parker said its drink window is until 2045. I think that is way too generous. Perhaps 2030 or sooner?
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boillatm Likes this wine: 91 points
July 24, 2021 - I can relate to the previous TNs: big, bold wine, long finish but somehow lacking a sense of place.
That said, drinking very well now and can easily be enjoyed over the next 10-15 years.1 person found this helpful Comment
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Wine Definition
- Vintage 2005
- Type Red
- Producer Bodegas Muga
- Varietal Tempranillo Blend
- Designation Aro
- Vineyard n/a
- Country Spain
- Region La Rioja
- SubRegion La Rioja Alta
- Appellation Rioja
- UPC Code 055597597501
Community Holdings
- Pending Delivery 0 (0%)
- In Cellars 163 (63%)
- Consumed 95 (37%)
Food Pairing
No food pairings available.
Who Likes This Wine
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- VarietyTempranillo Blend
- CountrySpain
- RegionLa Rioja
- SubRegionLa Rioja Alta
- AppellationRioja
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