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2015 Torre Muga, Bodegas Muga, Rioja, Spain

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Medium Bodied
  • Tempranillo
Not ready
95+/100
James Suckling
98+/100
Product: 20158032515
2015 Torre Muga, Bodegas Muga, Rioja, Spain

Description

With such an inky intensity in the glass, you know this is going to be a big wine. The nose does not disappoint, its velvety, rich, dark fruit interwoven with oak seduction. This is one of those wines that has evident winemaking expertise behind it, yet it flows with a natural ease. Wafts of spice and wood embers hint at the structure to follow on the palate. It's a wine of considerable stature but with rounded tannins that supply just the right amount of grip. There is a sappy intensity that will open out the fruit in time, but right now this shows fleshy plum, chocolate and an easy, rolling finish. Lots to come for sure. Drink 2023-2034.
Peter Newton, Private Account Manager (August 2019)
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2015
Maturity Not ready
Grape List Tempranillo
Body Medium Bodied
Producer Bodegas Muga

Critics reviews

95+/100
In the end, they also showed me the 2015 Torre Muga, even though the wine had only been in bottle for three months. There were no substantial changes in the way this was made—in provenance of the grape, the fermentation or élevage—even though they fine-tune the use of the oak in every vintage. I don't think I've ever tasted such a young and fruit-driven Torre Muga, and even though it felt a little dizzy from the recent bottling, it had great purity and such a structure and build that it is going to need some time in bottle. But this looks like a better vintage than the 2014. 35,000 bottles produced. Luis Gutiérrez, The Wine Advocate (February 2018)
RobertParker.com (Feb 2018)
James Suckling 98+/100
This is an extremely powerful, confident wine. So young and so complex. Immaculate black cherries, plums and blackberries and deeply integrated, spicy oak that's super fresh. The power and build is staggering. It's so rich and so balanced with seamless plum-flavored tannins. Perfect! james_suckling, jamessuckling_com (August 2018)
James Suckling, JamesSuckling.com (Aug 2018)

About this wine

Tempranillo/Tinto Fino

A high quality red wine grape that is grown all over Spain except in the hot South - it is known as Tinto Fino in Ribera del Duero, Cencibel in La Mancha and Valdepenas and Ull de Llebre in Catalonia. Its spiritual home is in Rioja and Navarra where it constitutes around 70% of most red blends.
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Bodegas Muga

Traditional Rioja, quite naturally enough, has a great following at Berry Bros. & Rudd; the synergy of values and history is self-evident and the wines, of both colours, are to my mind some of the most distinctive and under-rated in Europe. When one visits the area around the old railway station at Haro, one is overwhelmed by the role-call of great names, all located in close proximity to one another, all famous names... with Tondonia, la Rioja Alta, CVNE all stalwarts of the Berry Bros. & Rudd list. The other famous name, hitherto absent from our catalogue, and only, in all probability, to avoid the embarrassment of such riches, is Muga. Tasting the wines recently, we decided that Muga were every bit as good as the others and so we now complete the Haro jigsaw by proudly purchasing them for the first time.
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