2005 Bodegas Muga Rioja Torre Muga

Community Tasting Notes (56) Avg Score: 91.7 points

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  4/29/2024 - jonathanwilliam Likes this wine: 89 Points

  Big, concentrated - a bit too heavy for my taste, but very good nonetheless.

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  3/23/2022 - Winiac wrote: 94 Points

  Focused and concentrated flavors. Has another 15 years to develop. Somewhat cerebral wine, with little charm, but behemoth structure.

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  12/13/2021 - streethawk wrote: 90 Points

  Benefits from a long decant. Deep ruby, towards purple, with only the slightest hint of evolution at the rim. Fine sediment. Right out of the bottle I got jammy blackberry but then it’s tons of oak with clove, vanilla, coffee notes. The palate shows high acidity and high, drying tannins. Long finish. Palate has a lot more tertiary notes like cured meat and leather, but not a lot of fruit. Slightly disjointed overall; a little surprising for a 16-year-old wine. A question mark on its ability to age further based on the older notes here - I wonder if this wine has enough fruit to outlive the massive oak and tannins, but only time will tell. Try again in 5-10 years.

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  10/4/2021 - RockinCabs wrote: 91 Points

  Nose: Very significant oak component here as others have expressed. Sandalwood, vanillin, potpourri, and clove. Palate: Blackberry and raspberry preserves are tightly wrapped with leather, vanilla laced oak and and spice elements. Just a bit of grilled bell pepper too.
  
  This needs a lot of time to integrate. Hopefully the oak can be consumed a bit by the fruit. Nice rioja with a bright future.

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  10/3/2021 - englishman's claret wrote: 91 Points

  Tasted blind, it was obvious to all that this was immature Rioja. The abundant clove, leather, and sandalwood notes couldn’t come from anywhere else, but this is still showing so much oak it’s hard to get much else off of it. It seems to have the requisite fruit to last until the oak is integrated but, realistically speaking, we are talking about a 10-15 year timeline before we’ll really know. The potential score bracket is huge depending on how it handles its oak.

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