Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie The Institut Agricole Regional in

The Institut Agricole Regional in Aosta is a working agricultural college

both barrel styles are blended together to create a uniquely smooth

exhibiting flnty and chalky aromas

fresh blackberry fruit followed by a silky mid-palate with beautifully integrated tannins and a mouthcoating fruit sweetness on the finish

The mash bill is unusually rye-heavy for a bourbon: 64% non-GMO yellow corn and 36% rye

Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie The Institut Agricole Regional inMuga is one of the last great traditionalists in Rioja a family house in Haro that still builds its own barrels in an on site cooperage and fines its wines with egg whites. The Reserva is their calling card, and 2021 is a benchmark vintage. It spends two years in oak and another in bottle before release, emerging polished but classic: the kind of Rioja that tastes like Rioja. Tempranillo leads, rounded out with Garnacha, Mazuelo, and Graciano. Drink