Bodegas Muga - Torre Muga Rioja 2020 (Pre-arrival) (750ml)
Price: $118.00
| Producer | Bodegas Muga |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Rioja |
| Varietal | Tempranillo |
| Vintage | 2020 |
| Sku | 9676 |
| Size | 750ml |
Jeb Dunnuck: 97 Points
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.
James Suckling: 96 Points
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.
Wine Advocate: 95 Points
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. Published: Feb 29 2024
Vinous: 94 Points
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. - By Joaquín Hidalgo on December 2023
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