2005 Bodegas Muga Rioja Selección Especial

Community Tasting Notes (110) Avg Score: 90.9 points

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View rossi.wine's profile
  • Report Issue

  4/13/2024 - rossi.wine wrote:

  No formal notes - excellent and drinking really well. Expressive, open, layered - notes of dark and red fruit, licorice, tobacco, sweet spiced. Great persistence. Drink or keep.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View empire80's profile
  • Report Issue

  3/31/2024 - empire80 Likes this wine: 90 Points

  From a magnum. Black fruit and kirsch, vanilla and spice, perhaps just slightly too much acidity. Good, but the acidity didn't feel completely integrated.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View belfast taxman's profile
  • Report Issue

  2/6/2024 - belfast taxman wrote: 89 Points

  Still very much alive and kicking, even slightly hot suggesting the alcohol was a little bit out of balance. Very Muga, so very Rioja. I suggest also typical of the vintage which for me has always been a bit more full-on than say the 2004 or 2001. Could be cellared for years to come. A good wine but not for me at a GR level such as the Prado Enea.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View SchlaepDog's profile
  • Report Issue

  12/2/2022 - SchlaepDog Likes this wine: 96 Points

  Wow, spectacular. Exceeded expectations.
  
  Wine is still a opaque purple, no signs of any browning on the edges. Aromas of cedar, vanilla, leather, cigar box, blueberry pie, and honey suckle flowers fill the glass.
  
  In the mouth, a creamy, not watery texture, filled with red and black cherry, black raspberry, and hints of strawberry. Lots of earth and pencil lead mid-palate followed by a long finish of more red fruit and integrated tannin. Acidity is still there to make it feel much younger than 17 years.
  
  Great bottle, hope yours' is just as good. In a great spot now, but should hold for at least a few more years or longer.

  1 person found this helpful, do you? Yes - No / Comment

• Options

  • Post a Comment
  • View AlfrdGrz's profile
  • Report Issue

  11/21/2022 - AlfrdGrz wrote: 80 Points

  Not at it best.
  Passed its peak. Not bad, without any magic.

  Do you find this review helpful? Yes - No / Comment

View all 110 Community Tasting Notes

Professional reviews have copyrights and you can view them here for your personal use only as private content. To view pro reviews you must either subscribe to a pre-integrated publication or manually enter reviews below. Learn more.