Muga Flor de Muga Blanco 2021 (750ml) *
Product price
$52.99
Description
White Rioja has quietly modernized, and this bottling from Muga is a clear expression of that shift: a barrel-fermented white built for aging and released in the Reserva category, where long élevage is increasingly what serious drinkers want. The 2021 blends old-vine Viura with Garnacha Blanca and Maturana Blanca, roughly split forty and thirty and thirty. The free-run juice fermented cold in small barrels, rested in concrete eggs for a few months, then aged in new oak crafted in house, a regimen aimed at texture and depth rather than obvious wood.
The nose is steely and smoky, with a creamy, toasty edge and touches of spice and bay leaf. Underneath there are roasted white almonds, waxy apple, green stone fruit and citrus (lemon and grapefruit), all lifted by white floral notes. The palate is full-bodied and bright at once, with a clear, almost limpid center and real weight that never turns heavy. A chalky, faintly saline grip on the finish gives it gravity. Still young and primary, it drinks well now and has the structure to reward patience.
Product Details
| Category | Wine |
| Country | Spain |
| Region | Rioja |
| Varietal | Rioja Red Blend |
| Producer | Muga Flor de Muga |
| Vintage | 2021 |
| Size | 750 ML |
| Subtype | Still |
Expert Reviews
Steely aromas with a smoky, creamy edge. Minerals, roasted white almonds and green stone fruit. Pretty full-bodied and bright, with a flavorful but limpid center palate. A nice touch of phenolics and salinity at the end adds a bit more gravity to the wine. 40% viura, 30% maturana blanca and 30% garnacha blanca. Drink or hold. (James Suckling)
The white 2021 Flor de Muga Blanco Reserva sold with the Reserva category, as the market is more and more interested in whites with a long élevage. It's a white with aging potential and complexity produced with a blend of 40% old-vine Viura, 30% Garnacha Blanca and 30% Maturana Blanca with good ripeness in a great year when the grapes ripened thoroughly and developed full aromas and flavors but kept very good freshness. The free-run juice fermented in small barrels at low temperature, then was kept in concrete eggs for three months and then aged for six months in new barrels crafted by their coopers. It's smoky, spicy and toasty, still very young and undeveloped, primary but open and expressive with balsamic notes of bay leaf, waxy apples and flowers, and it has a seamless and balanced palate with a serious, chalky finish. 23,038 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022. (Wine Advocate, February 2025)
This barrel-fermented and -aged white comes from different soils in the towns of Haro, Anguciana, Villalba de Rioja, Galbárruli and Badarán, going some way to explain the wine’s complexity. A blend of Viura, Garnacha Blanca and Maturana Blanca aged for six months in new French oak, it offers subtle toasty notes and cinnamon spice but the wood is not overpowering. Lemon, grapefruit and pretty white floral notes open to a weighty palate that still offers a lightness of touch. The modern face of classic white Rioja. (Decanter, February 2025)