Bodegas Muga Conde de Haro Cava Brut Reserva 2019
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This sparkling wine has a very bright, pale lemon-yellow color and fine beads of bubbles. On the nose it is subtle and complex, revealing aromas from the grapes (lemon, grapefruit), from the 18 months spent sur lattes (biscuits, pastries) and some traces of dried fruit from the bottle ageing. On the palate it is fresh, with a very fine balance between the fruit, acidity and fizz, with a very long finish in which one can find creamy notes coming through.
Blend: 70% Viura, 30% Chardonnay
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James Suckling
Biscuit, sliced green-apple, lemon-pith and chalk aromas. Excellent freshness with a medium body and very fine bubbles. Nicely done and refined.
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Wine Enthusiast
This sparkling wine has aromas of Golden Delicious apple and candied almonds. It is bright on the palate, with flavors of lemon and Valencia orange joined by a soft note of hazelnut.
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Robert Parker's Wine Advocate
The sparkling Cava 2019 Conde de Haro was produced with Viura and 30% Chardonnay grapes. It achieved 11.8% alcohol and has very good freshness and acidity and is dry at 2.4 grams of residual sugar. It refermented in bottle where it was kept with the lees for some 18 months. It has a smoky and yeasty nose, small bubbles that give it texture and length. Very drinkable if not very profound. This is a wine they started in 1977 under the name Mugamar under the appellation Cava where they have remained ever since.
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Wine Spectator
A lively, balanced sparkler, with ripe white and red cherry fruit flavors set on the lacy bead, enriched by hints of toast point and salted almond, preserved lemon and pickled ginger -- an aromatic flavor profile that lingers on the crisp finish.
Bodegas Muga is a family firm founded in 1932 by Isaac Muga and Aurora Caño. The first wines were made in an underground cellar, until in 1968 they decided to set up their own winery in a beautiful old 19th-century town-house situated in the city of Haro. The Bodegas Muga outstanding feature is that it always uses the finest materials, combining tradition with the latest advances in winemaking so as always to give its wines the very best quality without losing authenticity. Indeed, it is the only wine cellar in Spain which employs its own master cooper and coopers, who make all the vats for the cellar as well as the oak casks. The winery remains true to traditional winemaking methods such as racking the casks by gravity and fining the wine with fresh egg whites. Bodegas Muga has succeeded in combining the purest family tradition with an updated vision of the future which has allowed them to preserve their own personality and character.
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