Rioja Blanco Muga Bodegas 2025 (750ML)

Muga ferments its white in a mix of French oak barriques and large upright vats, using barrels coopered from trees the family selects each February, with staves seasoned three to five years. The grapes, Viura with Malvasia and Garnacha Blanca, come from unirrigated goblet-trained and trellised vineyards planted between 1950 and 2000 on calcareous clay and alluvial soils, farmed without synthetic sprays. After an eight-hour maceration in the press and fermentation, the wine rests five months on its lees in the same vessels, with bâtonnage. This is a Rioja white built for texture, the barrel fermentation and lees work giving it a rounder, fuller feel than a steel-tank white. It is at its best with grilled hake, white asparagus with jamón, or garlic chicken.