Alabaster 2019 | Teso La Monja | Toro

Name: Alabaster 2019 | Teso La Monja | Toro
Brand: Teso La Monja
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Alabaster 2019 | Teso La Monja | Toro

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Teso La Monja, DO Toro. From 11.5 hectares of own vineyards in the Valmediano, La Jara and Marinacea parcels, trained as bush vines with an average age of over 100 years, at 800–900 metres altitude. Organic fertilisation. 100% Tinta de Toro.

Manual destemming grain by grain. Alcoholic fermentation in small 10-hectolitre oak vats with traditional treading. Malolactic fermentation in new French oak barrels. Aged 16 to 18 months in new French oak barrels.

Wine Identification
Alabaster 2019 is a red wine produced by Teso La Monja, located in the Toro Denominación de Origen within Castilla y León, Spain. The vintage is 2019.

Origin and Winemaking
The wine is made from 100% Tempranillo (locally known as Tinta de Toro) sourced from 11.5 hectares of the winery’s own vineyards. These old vines are situated in the specific plots of Valmediano, La Jara, and Marinacea, planted using the traditional en vaso (bush vine) method at an altitude of 800–900 meters. The vines have a mean age exceeding 100 years and are managed with organic fertilization.

Vinification begins with manual berry-by-berry destemming. Alcoholic fermentation takes place in small 10-hectoliter oak vats, utilizing traditional foot-treading methods. This is followed by malolactic fermentation and an aging period of 16 to 18 months entirely in new French oak barrels. The 2019 vintage yielded exceptionally low production levels, with the centenary vines producing only 11.2 hectoliters per hectare.

Tasting Notes
The wine presents a nuanced and harmonious profile, characterized by its aromatic, floral, and open nature. Despite being aged in new oak, the wood is described as very integrated, allowing the fruit quality to absorb the influence early on. It offers complexity and elegance, balancing power with finesse. The result is a showy yet refined wine that already feels approachable.

Critical Reception
This vintage has received high acclaim from major critics:
Guía Peñín: 97 points
The Wine Advocate: 96 points. The review notes it as one of the finest vintages for this bottling, highlighting its elegance and complexity.

James Suckling: 96 points

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PARKER: 96

They got even lower yields in 2019 than in 2018, and the centenary vines used for the 2019 Alabaster produced only 11.2 hectoliters per hectare. This wine was produced with hand-destemmed grapes that fermented for 23 days at 26 degrees Celsius and matured in brand-new French oak barrels, including malolactic, for 18 months. This is quite nuanced and harmonious, and the oak feels very integrated already. It must be the quality of the fruit that year that was able to absorb the oak so early on. In fact, it's a very showy, aromatic, floral and open, elegant and harmonious wine. It's nuanced and complex, with lots of elegance, among the finest vintages for this bottling. It's both powerful and elegant, floral and nuanced. This feels very approachable already but should also be long lived in bottle. 4,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in May 2021.

Learn more about Teso La Monja

In 1998 the Eguren family founded Numanthia in Toro and took it all the way to a hundred Parker points with Termanthia. In 2008 they sold it to LVMH for a figure put at over twenty-five million euros, from a production that did not reach a hundred thousand bottles. And with part of that money they set up Teso La Monja a short distance from the winery they had just sold, to start again in the same appellation.

It is run by Marcos and Miguel Ángel Eguren, the fourth generation of the family from San Vicente de la Sonsierra. Their range in Toro runs from Romanico to Almirez, Victorino, Alabaster and Teso La Monja itself.

Alabaster comes from 11.5 hectares of estate vineyard in the Valmediano, La Jara and Marinacea sites, bush-trained, averaging more than a hundred years old and between 800 and 900 metres. It is organically manured and is 100% Tinta de Toro.

It is destemmed by hand, berry by berry. It ferments in small 10-hectolitre oak vats with traditional treading, goes through malolactic in new French oak and ages sixteen to eighteen months in new barrels as well.

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