Bodegas Muga Flor de Muga Rose 2021
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A bright, pale pink colour. It is very expressive and complex on the nose. You can detect various families of aromas (red berries, stone fruit, white blossom) and a subtle spicy aroma from the small vats in which it has fermented and where it has been kept. On the palate it is very well-balanced, with a sensation of suppleness which is balanced by the fresh acidity. Fruity flavours continue to surface. A very long finish with very soft tannins. In the glass the wine continues to display its expressiveness and fragrance over a long period of time.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
I tasted the very recently bottled 2021 Flor de Muga Rosado, from a cooler year that resulted in a wine with 13.8% alcohol and notable freshness and acidity. The wine fermented in oak vats where it matured for four months with the fine lees that were stirred. It was a cool and rainy vintage with some challenges with oidium and mildew but very good for fresh wines. This is very pale and subtle but with good ripeness in the late-ripening zone where these grapes come from. It's fresh and light to medium-bodied, with clean aromas and flavors. It's elegant and subtle, terribly harmonious with complexity and depth. Possibly the finest vintage to date. Delicious!
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James Suckling
Pale pink-orange with a delicate nose of sea shells, thyme, fresh cherries and pomegranates. It’s medium-bodied with vibrant acidity and a creamy, textured palate. Pretty, with excellent length and focus.
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Bodegas Muga is a family firm founded in 1932 by Isaac Muga and Aurora Caño. The first wines were made in an underground cellar, until in 1968 they decided to set up their own winery in a beautiful old 19th-century town-house situated in the city of Haro. The Bodegas Muga outstanding feature is that it always uses the finest materials, combining tradition with the latest advances in winemaking so as always to give its wines the very best quality without losing authenticity. Indeed, it is the only wine cellar in Spain which employs its own master cooper and coopers, who make all the vats for the cellar as well as the oak casks. The winery remains true to traditional winemaking methods such as racking the casks by gravity and fining the wine with fresh egg whites. Bodegas Muga has succeeded in combining the purest family tradition with an updated vision of the future which has allowed them to preserve their own personality and character.
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