Bodegas Muga Rioja Blanco 2021 (Rioja, Spain) - [JS 92] [WA 91]

About the Winery:Bodegas Muga is Rioja Alta’s premier producer and the Muga family are unanimously considered to be one of Spain’s most important winemaking families. The winery has practically legendary status due to its philosophy revolving around adherence to tradition, dynamism, and winemaking of the highest quality. Few producers in the world fashion wines that have such a sense of tradition and place as Muga’s. The wines of Muga have an absolutely distinct, unique, and inimitable profile. VARIETIES Viura, Garnacha blanca and Malvasía de Rioja. GEOLOGY AND SOIL Mainly clay-calcareous from the Oja Valley area and iron-clay from the upper Najerilla area. ELABORATION Manual harvest. After a light maceration of the skins with the must in the press, it is fermented in wooden vats of different volumes and new French oak barrels from the Nevers district with a very light toasting. Once the alcoholic fermentation is finished, it remains for 4 months in the barrels, making 2 battonagges pe