Muga Prado Enea Gran Reserva 2014, red wine

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Gran Reserva Red Wine Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Muga

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Bodegas Muga

75 cl bottle

Prado Enea Gran Reserva is one of the great Rioja classics. It is made in the best vintages, such as 2014, a great year where the great aged wines can be kept for a long time. Perfect balance between the kindest tannins and good acidity that give the wines an extraordinary length.

Great exemplary reserve, well developed and with vitality. Expression of fruit, with very well worked and clean woods.

Wine Spectator, one of the most prominent and influential publications in the wine sector, has announced that Prado Enea Gran Reserva 2015 has been included in the list of the 100 best wines this year, being the only representative of the DOCa. Rioja.

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Q Cupping Score: James Suckling 99; Tim Atkin 97; Robert Parker 96; Jeb Dunnuck 95.

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Store: Muga

DOCa Rioja

Variety: 80% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano

Grade: 14,0% vol.

Tasting note: The wine shows an attractive and deep cherry color. The nose is fresh and complex, expressing aromas of berries, blackberries and plums, while notes of cocoa, vanilla and a subtle toasted aroma also emerge, denoting an aging in oak of the best quality. It is fresh on the palate and has a very well integrated acidity. Pleasant and fascinating texture on the palate and with a long and persistent finish. Clean and fresh with great aging potential.

Serving temperature: 16º C

Geology and Soil: Clay-calcareous with alluvial soils at an altitude of 550 meters.

Elaboration: In addition to the Torre Muga brand, the Prado Enea harvest is always the last to be brought to the winery and is selected from plots and land located in the Villalba de Rioja area, on the slopes of the Obarenes Mountains, facing south, a terroir of recognized high quality. The grape grains are fermented in 100-hectoliter oak barrels without temperature control or the addition of yeast. The maceration period is between 16 and 20 days. The wine ages for 12 months in 160-hectoliter American oak barrels, followed by a minimum of 36 months in barrels, usually French oak. At the end of the aging period, the wine is slightly clarified with fresh egg whites before being bottled and kept in our cellars for at least another 36 months, in order to complete the aging process.

Pairing: en Made in Spain Gourmet lor we recommend pairing with casseroles, meat, fish and cheese dishes, and can even be enjoyed on its own, without any accompaniment. With aged goat and sheep cheeses. Iberian sausages. Jamon.

In the event of a change of vintage, we will send the previous vintage while stocks last.

Muga vineyards

Probably one of the terroirs that best defines the typicity of the wines made in Haro. Its geological and climatic characteristics give the wines a strong personality with great aging potential, making it a unique place in La Rioja. Located a few kilometers from Haro, it is located on a plateau with a very particular geological structure to which we must add its fantastic protection from the cold north winds. In short, an exceptional vineyard. They are the first vineyards owned by the Muga family. The quality of its high-end wines resides in this paradisiacal setting. Tempranillo, Mazuelo, Graciano live together in this vineyard to give us magnificent wines. This is an example of a family's work to ensure quality in the future. Muga does not give up in its efforts to continue investing in the best terroirs in the area. For our newly planted vineyards, we not only seek to recover the highest quality land, but we also work so that the selection of each and every one of our vines is the best and for this reason Muga plants its vineyards with our own selection of vines. These vineyards located at the highest altitude of La Rioja, being the limit of cultivation, produce wines with very good acidity and aging potential. Few wineries bet on such extreme areas, but our peculiar cultivation system allows them to produce top-quality wines and discover the potential of each one of their vineyards.

La Rioja Alavesa: the elite of La Rioja wines

Rioja Alavesa is classified as a sub-zone in the Rioja Qualified Denomination of Origin. It has 13.500 hectares of vineyards and several hundred wineries, which result in an annual average of around 40 million liters of wine.

The area especially produces red wines with general specific characteristics, such as a bright and lively color, a fine aroma, a fruity taste and a pleasant palate. These peculiarities are due to the clayey-calcareous soils of the area, which are excellent for the vines to absorb the necessary moisture. The climate and the location of the vineyards also contribute to its quality, behind the Sierra de Toloño, which protects the vines from the cold north winds and allows the vines to take better advantage of the heat.

The reds are the most representative wines of the region and are made with the Tempranillo varieties (around 79% of the total is produced from this grape), Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano.

The young or red wines of the year are mostly made using the traditional method of carbonic maceration, in which whole clusters are fermented in a 'lake' for between seven and ten days. Once free of skins and scratches, they go to the vats where they will finish fermentation.

For their part, crianza, reserva and gran reserva wines are made using the Bordeaux or destemming process. It consists of breaking the grape, removing the stems and incubating the must with its paste for seven days. After several fermentations, they go to the barrels for aging. It will be the time spent in the barrel and in the bottle that will make the difference between crianzas, reservas and gran reservas.

Due to the fact that rosé and white wines are increasingly appreciated both inside and outside our borders, winemakers and oenologists work on the production of quality wines from these varieties, in a bid to approach all markets.

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Weight :	1,6 kg
do	DOCa Rioja

Information about Bodegas Muga

Muga is one of those few wineries in Rioja that has managed to combine the most absolute family tradition with a renewed vision of the future, which has allowed them to maintain a unique character and personality in their wines.

The current origin dates back to 1932, when the production of wines began in a typical winery in the old part of Haro, the capital of Rioja Alta.

Forty years later, Isaac Muga Martínez bought a 1969th century mansion in the emblematic Barrio de la Estación in that city. Shortly after, in XNUMX, he died and his sons Manuel and Isaac were in charge of taking over the family business, to which their sons have joined today.

The vineyards of Bodegas Muga (El Estepal, La Loma, Baltracones, Sajazarra) are nestled in the foothills of the Obarenes Mountains, in the middle of Rioja Alta, where they enjoy a peculiar climate. The unique geography and orientation of the slopes, as well as their location at the crossroads of the surrounding climates (Mediterranean, Atlantic and continental), combine harmoniously to create an ideal climatic space for the grape.

The soils in this area are mainly clay-calcareous, but they are subdivided into small entities with varieties in their physical and chemical properties, which provide each property with its own very defined personality.

This storm of climatic influences and soils defines a long vegetative cycle in which the grape and all its components undergo a delicate, prolonged and complex maturation. This undoubtedly explains the high appreciation of this wine region. Here Bodegas Muga owns 200 hectares of its own vineyards, but controls up to 150 more from other farmers. Varieties such as Tempranillo (which is the essence of red wines), Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano are grown on these lands; and Viura and Malvasia for whites.

In its nearly 25.000 square meters everything revolves around the oak. Bodegas Muga has four fermentation rooms with 90 wooden vats whose capacities vary from 3.000 to 15.000 kilograms of capacity. Thanks to this wide range of possibilities, grapes can be individually vinified depending on their quality and vineyard of origin.

Bodegas Muga is one of the few Spanish wineries that has its own cooperage. Three coopers and a cubero are in charge of working the oak wood in the old way, as in the past. Next to where the wine is made is this space, one of the most loved by owners and visitors. Watching the staves bend and dominate the wood in the way that artisans make them is a unique moment.

An exemplary winery and one of the most prestigious in La Rioja, which since its inception has produced vintage after vintage wines with the family seal: “Muga style”.