2006 Prado Enea, Gran Reserva, Bodegas Muga, Rioja, Spain

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2006 Prado Enea, Gran Reserva, Bodegas Muga, Rioja, SpainOne of Riojas signature wines and certainly the most distinctive label from Muga, Prado Enea is aged for seven years in a combination of vat, cask and bottle, its 2006 manifestation cleaving the traditional to the modern with powerful French oak tannins framing a magnificent savoury personality. An almost meaty vitality and more than a whiff of wood smoke underlines the individuality of this truly great wine, its dark fruit core enhanced by notes of

The blend is predominantly Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier

A complete wine with huge potential

while a wonderful minerally quality permeates through to the very long finish

It is great to see Pichon-Lalande back on superb form in 2006 with a wine whose purity and linear cassis fruit is reminiscent of their cracking 1996

Drink 2023 - 2033

The Perspective Series brings together two art forms - whisky-making and photography

they didn't want to call them VV in 2008 because it is a much drier style of wine

new leather

and the rest tiny quantities of Cabernet Franc and Petit Verdot should drink beautifully for the next 25-30 years

It is silky and gorgeous with unbelievably pure

A whisky that moves at its own unhurried pace

and then is quashed by a gooey wave of sticky molasses