Flor de Muga Blanco Reserva 2021

Steely aromas with a smoky, creamy edge. Minerals, roasted white almonds and green stone fruit. Pretty full-bodied and bright, with a flavorful but limpid center palate. A nice touch of phenolics and salinity at the end adds a bit more gravity to the wine. 40% viura, 30% maturana blanca and 30% garnacha blanca. Drink or hold.

The white 2021 Flor de Muga Blanco Reserva sold with the Reserva category, as the market is more and more interested in whites with a long élevage. It's a white with aging potential and complexity produced with a blend of 40% old-vine Viura, 30% Garnacha Blanca and 30% Maturana Blanca with good ripeness in a great year when the grapes ripened thoroughly and developed full aromas and flavors but kept very good freshness. The free-run juice fermented in small barrels at low temperature, then was kept in concrete eggs for three months and then aged for six months in new barrels crafted by their coopers. It's smoky, spicy and toasty, still very young and undeveloped, primary but open and expressive with balsamic notes of bay leaf, waxy apples and flowers, and it has a seamless and balanced palate with a serious, chalky finish. 23,038 bottles produced. It was bottled in November 2022. (Luis Guitérrez)