Flor de Muga Rosado

Name: Flor de Muga Rosado 2023
Brand: Bodegas Muga
SKU: fmuga23
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.333333333333333 (15 reviews)

2023

15 reviews

Bodegas Muga

Rioja (Spain)

Garnacha

Spec sheet

Type	Oak-aged Rosé Wine
Region	Rioja (Spain)
Grapes	100% Garnacha
Producer	Bodegas Muga
Allergens	Contains sulfites
Alcohol contenti	13.5%

The wine

When a winery like Muga launches a new wine it's wise to keep well informed, but if we're also dealing with a top of the range rosé, then our senses must be in for an absolute delight.

Flor de Muga is made solely from Garnacha grapes grown on old vines owned by the winery, and lying at an altitude of around 700 metres on clay soils. The free-run grape juice from the best selected berries ferments at low temperatures in small wooden casks, since the limited area covered by the parcels chosen for the production of this Flor de Muga doesn't allow for large volumes. Afterwards, a period of four months spent on fine lees adds an extra unctuous note overall. In the final blending, the wines of the different parcels are combined so as to raise complexity in the realm of rosés to a new level.

If you figure among the lucky ones who get to uncork one of these wonderful bottles of Flor de Muga, you'll find a wine that's a subtle pink colour with violet glints, a result of a short maceration of the grape skins. The over-riding virtue isn't powerfulness, but elegance. It's complex, fresh and delicate, with its nose revealing strawberries and rose petals and a velvety feel overwhelming its palate. Mineral, balanced, and in a word: unique!

Drinking and storing

Serve between 8ºC and 10ºC

Food pairing

Smoked fish / Brie and camembert type cheese / Lobster

Ratings and awards

2022	93 PK
2021	93+ PK
2020		91 DC
2019	92 PK
2018	91 PK
2017	89-91 PK

PK: ParkerDC: Decanter

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

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! 35,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2022.

— Luis Gutiérrez (14/07/2022)Robert Parker Wine Advocate Vintage 2021 - 93+ PARKER

Customer reviews

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by: D. Simpson (07/08/2017) - Vintage 2016

0

Amazing wine - one in a milllon find

Extremely drinkable - light with no aftertaste Beautiful wine! Found on holiday in Mallorca and discovered only a limited amount made

by: marco (08/08/2019) - Vintage 2018

-1

Great Rosado

Great Rosado made from white grenache grapes that smells and tastes as fruity and flowery as the nice label suggests. Recommended!

by: Dieter (05/09/2017) - Vintage 2016

0

Toller Einstieg eines hochklassigen Garnacha-Rosados

Ein neuer Rosado von Bodegas Muga, eines der renommiertesten Weingüter in der Rioja, dessen Weine großartig sind und meist hochdekoriert. In dieser Liga spielt der "Flor de Muga" noch nicht, auch wenn ihn "El Pais" schon einmal zum besten spanischen Rosé des Jahrgangs 2016 ausrief. Immerhin hat er eine nette Geschichte mit auf den Weg bekommen: Inspiriert worden sei Name und Etikett von der üppigen Farbenpracht eines japanischen Kirschblütenbaums, gepflanzt vor einem Jahrhundert von der Großmutter und Mitbegründerin des Weinguts, Aurora Caño. Eine schöne Hommage. Der Flor de Muga ist einer der seltenen reinrebigen Garnacha-Rosados. Im Glas beeindruckt er durch die Trendfarbe provenzalisches Lachsrosa; die Nase braucht etwas Zeit, bevor diverse Früchte und zarte Blüten zu erkennen sind; am Gaumen ein mittlerer Körper, fruchtig und frisch, zum Ende etwas vage mit einer gewissen Unwucht zugunsten der Säure. Ein toller Einstieg eines hochklassigen Rosados, der jedoch noch Luft nach oben hat.

by: daniel hernandez orquín (30/08/2023) - Vintage 2022

0

ummm, no sé

La verdad es que no ha sido una decepción, pero casi. Le he notado muchas carencias aromáticas y poca personalidad en boca, persistencia la justa y no demasiada sutileza. No es mi vino, desde luego.

by: Seitel (05/06/2020) - Vintage 2019

0

Top Rose

Flor de Muga ist ein sensationeller trockener Rose. Er ist nicht nur ein Sommerwein, sondern passt auch ganzjährig zu hellem Fleisch, Pasta und Salaten.

The winery

Bodegas Muga

Bodegas Muga is a family business founded by Isaac Muga and Aurora Caño in 1932 and located in the historic neighborhood of La Estación in Haro. In its nearly 25,000 square meters, the most traditional production methods are brought together with the most avant-garde techniques. The vineyards of Bodegas Muga, nestled in the foothills of the Montes Obarenes, in the heart of Rioja Alta, enjoy a peculiar climate, partly due to its unique geography and orientation and, secondly,...

Flor de Muga Rosado

Spec sheet

The wine

Drinking and storing

Food pairing

Ratings and awards

Wine critics reviewsReviews by Parker

Customer reviews

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