Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2010 its power and concentration shout

its power and concentration shout for a carafe or a decade of bottle aging

strong earth notes and a hint of the vegetal that slide into rich

The oak is nicely integrated here

already hard to resist style

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2010 its power and concentration shoutThe 2007 Alabaster came from pre phylloxera vines yielding a miniscule half ton of fruit per acre. It went through ML in new French oak before being transferred to a different set of new French oak barrels for 18 months of aging. Glycerin oozes down the glass of this remarkably rich effort. Purple black colored, it offers up a brooding nose of licorice, fresh tar, black cherry, and blackberry. On the palate it is full bodied, dense, and chewy, but in