Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2010 The oak is nicely integrated

The oak is nicely integrated here

the 2007 Proprietary Red Wine still possesses a youthful deep garnet-purple color and gives up a truly gorgeous nose of crème de cassis

already hard to resist style

ripe berries and flowers

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2010 The oak is nicely integratedThe 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