Bodegas Muga - Torre Muga 2020 (750ml)

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Price: $129.99

Producer	Bodegas Muga
Country	Spain
Region	Rioja
Varietal	Proprietary Red
Vintage	2020
Sku	115550
Size	750ml
ABV	13.00%

Bodegas Muga Description

RVWC

In this 2020 vintage we find a wine with a deep robe and notable red color that tells us it is still young and has a great potential for evolution. Very high intensity on the nose with ripe fruit notes of blackberry and strawberry to the fore. Ageing aromas from the fine quality French oak also appear, with toasted and smoked notes and coffee,among others. On the palate it is powerful, with a return of the fine aromas detected on the nose. A good balance between the alcohol and acidity. The tannins are smooth and elegant. The finish is very long leaving a satisfying, full sensation.

You can pair this wine with red meat left to hang for a good time, game or failing that, enjoy it on its own. The winery also recommends it to accompany grilled white fish.

Varietal: Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Graciano

Critical Acclaim

98 points Tim Atkin, Review Date: 06/2024
Torre Muga is the top wine among the current releases from this Haro-based bodega, right up there with the best bottlings of this avowedly modern blend of Tempranillo with 10% each of Mazuelo and Graciano. A Rioja with a French accent, as it were, it has coffee bean oak, violet and green herb aromas, granular tannins, blackberry and bramble fruit and the structure to age in bottle.

96 points Jeb Dunnuck, Review Date: 07/2024
Lastly, the 2020 Torre Muga just about jumps out of the glass with its complex red and black fruits, savory flowers, tobacco, lead pencil shavings, and graphite-like aromatics. Plush, full-bodied, concentrated, and beautifully balanced, it shows the softer, more rounded style of the vintage and has ripe tannins and a great finish.

96 points James Suckling, Review Date: 08/2023
Torre is a bolder, more concentrated expression of Rioja from Muga. Meaty and tarry nose with smoked bacon. Lots of grilled herbs and some dark sweet spices. Powerful, broad and full-bodied on the palate with lots of vertical, dusty tannins that lead you towards the long, juicy finish. Tempranillo, mazuelo and graciano. Better from 2025. (ZS)

95 points Wine Advocate, Review Date: 02/2024
The more modern wine in the portfolio is the 2020 Torre Muga, which has notes of toast, smoke, sesame seeds, smoky bacon, spices, herbs and ripe berries. It is a wine they started producing in 1991, and the change in style also influenced the quality approach and selection of vineyards, grapes and oak for the barrels that they later applied to other wines. It has a polished palate with very fine tannins, chalky and elegant. It's a more approachable vintage, round, velvety and soft, though perhaps without the aging potential of 2021, but it’s very pleasant. It's long. They didn't bottle the 2020 from Aro, so some of those grapes might have finished in this bottle. It was bottled in December 2022. (LG)

94 points Vinous, Review Date: 12/2023
The garnet-hued 2020 Torre Muga is a blend of Tempranillo, Mazuelo and Graciano sourced from Rioja Alta, aged for 18 months in new French oak barrels. Its ripe aromas reveal balsamic and clove notes, featuring a delicate core of plums with hints of cedar and vanilla. On the palate, it is dry and plush, with a lingering juicy sensation and a fairly chalky texture. This is a complex Rioja wine that nods to a riper Bordeaux style. (JH)