Rioja · 2016
Prado Enea Gran Reserva
Bodegas Muga
Tempranillo
About this wine
Bodegas Muga in Haro is one of the last traditional Rioja producers to use exclusively natural processes — gravity flow, egg whites for fining, oak vats for fermentation. Prado Enea, their flagship Gran Reserva, is only made in exceptional vintages. 2016 was one of Rioja's finest decades.
Tasting notes
Deep garnet. A complex nose of dried cherry, tobacco leaf, vanilla, and earthy mushroom unfolds slowly — this is a wine built for the long haul. The palate has firm but polished tannins, vibrant acidity, and a wonderfully savory, almost umami, mid-palate. The extended Rioja oak ageing (36 months in American and French barrique) gives Prado Enea its signature silk.