Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2011 (from Vignes Franches)

(from Vignes Franches)

123 ha parcel of 80+ year old vines situated mostly in terres blanches

This is more restrained still though aggressive swirling eventually coaxes the gorgeously broad-ranging and pure nose to reveal a more floral and spicier mélange of red and dark currant

Relatively firm reduction renders the nose impossible to read at present

(from Pas de Chat

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2011 (from Vignes Franches)The 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