Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 To explain some of the

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

Aromatic and palate filling

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

This is the first vintage of Yalumba s new Cabernet/Shiraz-based flagship wine

and in this powerful and ripe year

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 To explain some of theThe 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