2001 Bodegas Muga Rioja Selección Especial

Community Tasting Notes (95) Avg Score: 90.9 points

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  12/2/2022 - peterk Likes this wine:

  From a magnum. Great fruit, well integrated, but the wine faded over the evening

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  9/3/2022 - Armando B wrote: 93 Points

  At peak. Great balance. Great texture. Great bottle.

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  10/22/2021 - Harley1199 Likes this wine:

  Cork with a lot of mold on the outside (pictured) and so I thought it would be convenient to extract it using The Durand. Dark colour, the gates of hell like. Orange trimmings. On the nose offers bitter cherries with notes of leather, blood orange, sandalwood, marzipan, salt stone, anthracite. Wonderful complexity that suggests a very advanced evolution. However, on the palate shows behind a velvet texture and a tannic backbone, a rabid acidity that augurs a greater capacity to age and for that I leave a magnum in my cellar, for the next ten years to come.
  A great traditional bottle that I want to compare sooner than later with a more modern style of Torre Muga from this same outstanding vintage.
  
  Corcho con bastante moho en la parte exterior (en la foto) y por ello me pareció conveniente extraerlo con The Durand. Color obscuro como las puertas del infierno. Ribetes anaranjados. En nariz ofrece cerezas amargas con notas de cuero, naranja sanguina, sándalo, mazapán, piedra de sal, antracita. Maravillosa complejidad que sugiere una evolución muy avanzada. Sin embargo, al paladar muestra detrás de una textura de terciopelo y de un espinazo tánico , una rabiosa acidez que augura una mayor capacidad para envejecer y para eso dejo un mágnum en mi bodega, para dentro de diez años.
  Una gran botella tradicional que deseo comparar próximamente con una más moderna en estilo, Torre Muga de esta misma añada.

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  3/29/2021 - MRichman wrote:

  Finally showing its age. Dried leather, smoke. Good fruit behind some drying tannins. I think this is now on the downside. Not showing VA but the fruit has lost its verve and energy.

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  2/13/2021 - G00dflush wrote:

  Found this in my cellar marked drink by 2017. That was cautious, its lovely. Liquorice, bitter cherry, bret. Glad I didn’t find it until tonight. Drank it with thin crust pizza, tallegio, potato, radicchio and truffle oil.

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