2010 Prado Enea Gran Reserva
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Muga are one of the giants of Spanish winemaking, founded in Haro in 1932, and are still owned and run by the same family. Prado Enea is a blend of 80% Tempranillo along with 20% shared between Garnacha, Mazuelo and Graciano. Along with the grapes for Torre Muga, the Prado Enea grapes are always the last to be brought into the winery. In this way, an ideal level of ripeness is ensured. This wine is aged for 12 months in 16,000-litre oak vats, at least thirty-six months in oak casks and a minimum of thirty-six months in the bottle. Prado Enea is one for the long haul, at its best after 10 years of age and, according to Juan Muga, the Grandson of the founder, can last “forever” – as James Suckling clearly agrees below.
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Luis Gutiérrez, Wine Advocate
James Suckling
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The wonderfully silky texture with an added juiciness is what makes this wine so very special. The flawless and seamless nature to the wine is so impressive that it takes your breath away. Plenty of beautiful fruit but what mouthfeel. Drink now and forever.
I was really looking forward to the 2010 Prado Enea Gran Reserva, as I've seen a very good improvement in this cuvee in the last few vintages, and 2010 is one of the more-balanced vintages of recent times. This is the most classical among the wines in the portfolio, the one with the longer elevage, a little bit like the wines from yesteryear but with today's knowledge about vineyards and vinification/elevage. This has settled to a blend of approximately 70% Tempranillo, 20% Garnacha and the remaining 10% between Mazuelo and Graciano, from the cooler, higher-altitude vineyards, which means they only bottle it every two or three years. In recent years, 2007 and 2008 were not bottled. It ferments in small oak vats built by their own tonneliers, and they like to delay malolactic until the spring by opening the windows so the cold from outside comes into the winery. For the aging, each variety goes into separate barrels racked from newer to older barrels to complete some 36 months or three years. It has very healthy and balanced parameters, and that's what the wine feels like. It's still young. It's never a dark wine, more of a ruby or bright color, and it has a nose of youth, subtle and elegant. But the quality shows in the unbelievable elegance and harmony on the palate, where the tannins are very fine, the flavors are subtle but deep and the length is just phenomenal. This is only medium-bodied, with perfect ripeness and integrated acidity. This should have a very long life in bottle, especially as I had the chance to check the evolution of the 2004 next to this. 90,000 bottles were produced from 2010. The following vintages will be 2011, 2014 (a small bottling) and 2015. Feb 2018, www.robertparker.com
