Flor de Muga Blanco 2019
Rioja
Spain, Spain
Regular price£180.00
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| Style: White | Packaging: OCC |
| ABV: 14.0% | Closure: |
| Organic: | Drink from: 2023 |
| Biodynamic: | Drink to: 2026 |
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Critic scores
94+ RP
Critic reviews
"The second vintage of their top white is the 2019 Flor de Muga Blanco, produced with a blend of 40% Viura from red limestone and clay soils, 30% Garnacha Blanca from classical clay and limestone and 30% Maturana Blanca planted on sandy soils. It fermented in small barrels with indigenous yeasts and then matured in concrete eggs for three months and new barriques built in their own cooperage for six months. The wine is 13.2%alcohol and has a pH of 3.2 with very good acidity. There are only 37 hectares of Maturana Blanca in Rioja, of which they have eight. It's the same grape as the extinct Ribadavia variety from Galicia. The variety disappeared because it delivers very low yields, but they love the quality when it's picked fully ripe when it still keeps very good acidity. The wine is still a little oaky and powerful, from a warm and dry year, but the palate is electric and almost salty. This is a white that should develop nicely in bottle (I wish I had a time machine!), and as with the rosé, this feels like the finest vintage to date... only the second one! 11,892 bottles produced. It was bottled in December 2020."
Luis Gutiérrez, July 2022, RobertParker.com
Luis Gutiérrez, July 2022, RobertParker.com