Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster other_regions_australia The flavors are dark

The flavors are dark

There is a more evident minerality to the big-bodied

blackcurrant – dense but not massive expressiveness

Longer than the other one (that turned out to be the 2004)

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster other_regions_australia The flavors are darkThe 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