Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster other_regions_italy The wines more than speak

The wines more than speak for themselves

I very much like this generous yet refined effort

green apple

Very well-integrated nose

362 cases made

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster other_regions_italy The wines more than speakThe 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