94pts James Suckling

This is really wonderful now, offering dark berries, leather, cedar, mahogany and dried fruit. Some figs, too. Full-bodied and very ripe with an intense, powerful palate. Luscious and decadent with so much fruit. A mouthful of aged fruit. Just right now, but will continue to improve. Drink or hold.

91pts Vinous

Dark red. Wild, gamey red berry and cherry scents are complicated by leather, vanilla, baking spices and cured meat. Firm, sharply focused redcurrant and bitter cherry flavors slowly unwind to reveal smoky mineral and floral pastille character. Finishes sweet, spicy and very long.

17.5/ 20 Jancis Robinson

Cherry and chocolate. Substance and volume. Great purity with lovely savoury chew on the finish. 

Winemaker Notes

Discover a wide range of spicy nuances lightly superimposed on the fruit and flanked by fine, very fresh leather aromas. What most surprises one is how the wine takes over the whole mouth from the initial attack until a few minutes after the finish. The aftertaste and retronasal phase initially transmit even, dominant notes of tobacco which fade to give way to spices such as cloves and black pepper. Without a shadow of a doubt, the evolution of this wine is storing up some fantastic sensations for us to enjoy in the future.

Winery Notes

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.