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Rioja Gran Reserva Prado Enea Muga 2019 (750ML)
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Muga made no Prado Enea in 2017 or 2018, so this 2019 Gran Reserva is the first release since the 2016. It draws on high-elevation vineyards in the western reaches of Rioja Alta, with Tempranillo blended alongside Garnacha and Graciano. The wine spent up to 31 months in cask, 80% French oak and 20% American, and the oak sits as a faint note of coconut and caramel beneath the fruit. Blackberry, plum and elderberry lead, edged with dried herbs, cedar and baking spice that gather as the wine breathes. The palate has real drive: juicy, clear-fruited and lifted, with fine tannins that give shape without weight. It is built for the long haul, and critics put its window from 2026 out to 2055. Open it with roast suckling lamb, a chorizo and white-bean stew, or a wedge of aged Manchego.
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Country
Spain
Region
Rioja
Appellation
Rioja
Color
Red
Varietal
Tempranillo Blend
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Critic Reviews
Wine Spectator
94 Points
94 Points, Alison Napjus, Wine Spectator: "This statuesque red shows fine balance, with its firm core of sculpted tannins married to a plush texture that supports a generous range of crushed black cherry and black raspberry fruit and notes of sweet tobacco, iron, olive tapenade, vanilla and paprika. Graceful, fresh and focused through the lasting finish. Tempranillo, Graciano, Mazuelo and Garnacha. Drink now through 2039. 10,000 cases made, 2,500 cases imported." 06/26
Wine Advocate
97 Points
97 Points, Luis Gutierrez, Robert Parker's Wine Advocate: "The 2019 Prado Enea Gran Reserva is their more traditional Rioja, a blend of Tempranillo, Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano, mostly from Rioja Alta (Sajazarra, Cellorigo and Fonzaleche) at 550 to 700 meters in altitude, but the Garnacha is from different plots in the zone of Tudelilla at a high altitude. They didn't produce Prado Enea in 2017 or 2018, so this is the follow-up of the superb 2016. The bunches were harvested into 200-kilogram boxes, destemmed, put through optical sorting and fermented in small oak casks with indigenous yeasts. The élevage in barrel was extended to 36 months. The nose is phenomenal, keeping the essence of Muga with a touch of Garnacha perfume; it's still young and undeveloped for its age, not yet tertiary. The wine is full-bodied but fine-boned and has 14.7% alcohol, a pH of 3.46 and 5.81 grams per liter acidity. Still young, the wine has power and elegance and very good aging potential. 119,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in January 2023. The next vintages will be 2021 and 2022, and after that perhaps 2025, but certainly no 2023 or 2024 wine." 03/26
