Bodegas Muga Torre Muga 2001 is a unique modern style of Rioja with a real contemporay palate feel achieved through higher than average percentages of Mazuelo and Graciano than is the norm and 18 months in more subtle French, rather than American, oak.

The Muga vineyards, which date back to the 1930s, are located in the folds of the Obarenes mountains, on a series of terraced plots in the Rioja Alta; 'Torre Muga' being named after the tower at the Muga bodega.

"The modern-styled, expensive, but terrific 2001 Torre Muga is an unfiltered blend of 75% Tempranillo, 15% Mazuelo, and 10% Graciano...it offers an opaque ruby/purple color in addition to sweet plum, cedar, tobacco, new saddle leather, Allspice, raspberry, and black cherry fruit aromas as well as flavors. It is a wine of admirable intensity, full body, and superb purity, size, potency, and harmony." eRobertParker.com

"Full ruby-red. Deep, smoky, lightly roasted aromas of black plum, minerals and licorice. Full, round and sweet, with highly complex plum, cinnamon and smoky oak flavors perfectly framed by strong but harmonious acidity. Fat, broad and wonderfully deep. Finishes with outstanding palate-saturating persistence and great lingering sweetness." Stephen Tanzer, International Wine Cellar