Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie fresh blackberry fruit followed by

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

It is the easiest way to drink Rostaing's hand without chasing down his Rhône bottlings

The Institut Agricole Regional in Aosta is a working agricultural college

ample blend of Cinsault

a single bowl of vines tucked in the hills between Ukiah and Anderson Valley where he is a partner in the vineyard

Bodegas Muga Rioja Reserva 2021 Jura and Savoie fresh blackberry fruit followed byMuga 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