Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie The mash bill is unusually

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

Small production Napa estate that focuses on old world style Bordeaux blends that still emphasize the power and richness of Napa

ample blend of Cinsault

The Institut Agricole Regional in Aosta is a working agricultural college

It is light on its feet and built on crunchy red fruit rather than weight or oak

Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie The mash bill is unusuallyMuga 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