Teso La Monja
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Teso La Monja 2007 Alabaster Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Cellar Selection
- $250
Make room in the cellar for this heavyweight! Talk about a monster wine; but there’s also finesse, character and style to it. Alabaster is the top wine from the Eguren family’s new Toro winery, and it’s big, tannic and loaded with spice, molasses and syrupy black fruit flavors. Rich, long and fierce on the finish, with tannins and heat to resolve. Best from 2012…
— M.S.
(6/1/2010)
Teso La Monja 2009 Alabaster Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Editors' Choice
- Online Exclusive
- $243
If you like heavyweight Tempranillo, this is a textbook rendition. It’s deep and dark, with earth, leather and oak in addition to monster black fruit on the nose. Feels lush, powerful and layered, with bursting blackberry, spice, mocha and vanilla flavors. Quite black and spicy on the finish. Drink from 2012 through 2016.
— M.S.
(2/1/2012)
Teso La Monja 2007 Victorino Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Cellar Selection
- $71
This is the tier-two wine from the Egurens’ new Toro project, and it’s stellar. Intense aromas of black fruit, char and mint start it out, and next up come cola, roasted black fruit, clove and cured-meat flavors. Oak is forward now, but it should settle in a year or so. A dynamite Toro to drink from 2011 through 2018.
— M.S.
(6/1/2010)
Teso La Monja 2008 Alabaster Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Cellar Selection
- $243
A dark bruiser with heavy mocha, chocolate, tobacco, cola and crusty leather aromas in addition to massive fruit scents. It’s huge in the mouth, with broad, grabby tannins, pumped-up acids and wide berry, vanilla and coconut flavors. Dark like coffee on the finish, with titanic tannins and foundation. Best from 2013 through 2016.
— M.S.
(11/1/2011)
Teso La Monja 2007 Almirez Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- $22
Teso la Monja is the new Toro winery from the Eguren family of Rioja fame (former owners of Numanthia-Termes in Toro), and it’s proof that no beat has been missed since they sold out to Moët Hennessy. Expect dark, intense black fruit aromas and flavors mixed with heat, tannin, cola and spice. Some oak creeps out on the finish, but overall this is a lovely, bullish…
— M.S.
(6/1/2010)
Teso La Monja 2008 Victorino Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Cellar Selection
- $69
Smoky and big on the bouquet, with black fruit galore, shoe polish, peppercorn and chocolate aromas. Intense and tannic but layered and deep, with a granite body and dark, ripe flavors of blackberry, fig, spice and chocolate. Huge, toasted and modern in every way.
— M.S.
(11/1/2011)
Teso La Monja 2009 Victorino Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Online Exclusive
- $69
Lively, piercing and powerful on the bouquet, which is solid as stone and delivers loads of black fruit and integrated oak. Feels full, round and deep, with full-out black fruit flavors strengthened by espresso, mocha and molasses. Toasty and deep on the finish, with tobacco and spice accents. Drink from 2012 through 2015.
— M.S.
(2/1/2012)
Teso La Monja 2009 Almirez Tinta de Toro (Toro)
- Editors' Choice
- $28
This has an opaque purple color, with a supremely concentrated and potent dark-fruited bouquet. Feels amped up, warm and exotic, with black fruit flavors alongside notes of peppery spice and bitter chocolate. Toasty and chocolaty on the finish. Drink now through 2016.
— M.S.
(7/1/2012)
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