Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 and in this powerful and

and in this powerful and ripe year

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

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

This is a Bâtard of finesse and understated rather than overt muscle and imposing size and weight

middle weight plus flavors that also exude a lovely bead of minerality on the sappy and youthfully austere finale

Eguren Teso Monja, Alabaster Vintage:2007 and in this powerful andThe 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