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

The Institut Agricole Regional in Aosta is a working agricultural college

grow wild and are heavily sought after by the local mezcaleros

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

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