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2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

Colour: Red
Vintage: 2006
Region: Rioja
% Alcohol: 14.00

Bodegas Muga is one of our favourite producers. There’s so much that is good about the Muga enterprise: they continue to purchase vineyards, taking their total holdings to over 350 hectares, as they firmly believe that contract growers cannot deliver the same quality fruit as those which are estate-owned; they still produce their own barrels on-site, even personally choosing their own trees from specific French forests; and they continue to walk the perfect line between modern methods and traditional style. They are arguably the most dependable – and dependably impressive – producer in Rioja. Whilst they make a range of wines encompassing traditional and modern, our favorites are the Gran Reserva Prado Enea, perhaps the finest traditional-styled Rioja in our range, and the more polished Aro.

98 JS
96 LG
94 DWWA
2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

JS
£300 3 pack case(s) available

2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

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Region: Rioja
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2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

JS
£300 3 pack case(s) available

2006 Muga, Prado Enea Gran Reserva, Rioja

Size
Cs (12)
Cs (6)
Cs (3)
Loose
Price
Per
Region: Rioja
98 JS
MAG
0
0
1
0
£300
3
 
CONDITION
STATUS
ETA
Our ETA dates are a guide and are subject to change. If you require more information on an ETA time please call UK +44 (0) 20 7269 0703 or alternatively email [email protected].
YOU BUY
Case (3 x 150cl) LIVETRADE
CONDITION
Original Case
STATUS
In-Bond
ETA
Our ETA dates are a guide and are subject to change. If you require more information on an ETA time please call UK +44 (0) 20 7269 0703 or alternatively email [email protected].
In Stock
LIVETRADE
You buy
£300.00
1 Case(s) Remaining

Tasting Notes and Scores

98 JS

This is amazing traditional Rioja with a complexity and beauty of ripe fruit and long aging. Unique. Full body, ultra-fine tannins, tobacco, vanilla, plums and prunes. It lasts for minutes on the palate. Three years aged in oak and three years in bottle. 80% tempranillo with the rest of the classic varieties. All from high altitude vineyards.

James Suckling

96 LG

The 2006 Prado Enea is a phenomenal bottle of traditional Rioja at its best. A blend of 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha and the remaining 10% Mazuelo and Graciano aged for a long time in oak and bottled before release. This is a practice quite common from yesteryear, but that is a true rarity today. The technical data provided talks about incredible parameters, 14% alcohol and a pH of 3.39, both extremely low for a warm vintage like 2006. The grapes are sourced from higher-altitude terraced plots where the climate is cooler and drier and the soils are rich in clay. This is a wine that is not automatically produced every year. The wine spends its elevage in oak containers of different size, origin and age for no less than three years. The nose is intoxicating with a superb mixture of tertiary and more primary aromas like old furniture, cloves, cracked pepper, incense and cigar ash plus cherries in liqueur (that Garnacha!). The palate is medium-bodied, with great freshness (Jorge Muga tells me the pH is stabilized with aging in barrel), acidity and balance, with a silky texture, ultra-fine tannins and great persistence and length. This wine feels younger than it is, and seems to be aging at a glacial pace. With the stuffing and balance it has this should make very old bones, and drink greatly throughout its life. Superb! At this quality level the price seems like a bargain. 90,000 bottles produced. The next Prado Enea will be 2009 as they didn't get what they look for in this wine in either 2007 and 2008. Those were two cold vintages, and 2007 had 100 liters of rain during the harvest. Prado Enea is harvested in November and in 2008 there was frost at the end of October.

Luis Gutiérrez

Wine Advocate

2015-04-30

94 DWWA

While the Muga family now produces some ultra-modern styles, this sits perfectly in a classical spot, all woodsmoke and red berries. The 80% Tempranillo matured for three years in cask makes for a finely balanced, typical Rioja.

Decanter World Wine Awards

Decanter World Wine Awards

94 F

Falstaff

Falstaff

2016-06-01

93 GP

Guia Penin

Guia Penin

2015-07-29

92 WS

The dense texture carries harmonious flavors of plum, tobacco, licorice, mineral and smoke in this polished red. Well-integrated tannins and orange peel acidity keep this balanced. The floral, spicy finish brings you back for another sip. Drink now through 2021. 800 cases made. - winespectator.com, February 2015

Wine Spectator

17 JR

80% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano. Black fruit which is subdued when compared with the 2005. Soft but fibrous tannin. (RH)

Jancis Robinson

Jancis Robinson

2015-11-17

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