Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 focused and intensely mineral-inflected large-scaled

focused and intensely mineral-inflected large-scaled flavors evidence controlled power and a sleek muscularity before terminating in an explosive and palate saturating finish of genuinely stunning length

and in this powerful and ripe year

Aromatic and palate filling

To explain some of the many things I saw and learned from them

(from 3 separate lieux-dits)

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 focused and intensely mineral-inflected large-scaledThe 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