{"id":2928,"date":"2017-03-09T16:08:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2020-06-09T11:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:03:05","slug":"the-wine-advocate-awards-teso-la-monja-wines-over-90-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/the-wine-advocate-awards-teso-la-monja-wines-over-90-points\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wine Advocate Awards  Teso La Monja Wines Over 90 Points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/img-destacada\/wine_advocate-teso_la_monja-luis_gutierrez.jpg\" alt=\"wine_advocate-teso_la_monja-luis_gutierrez\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Luis Guti\u00e9rrez, a Spanish wine taster<br \/>\n<!--more-->for the influential American publication, corroborates the quality of the wide range of Teso La Monja wines produced by the Eguren family in the Toro D.O.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The American publication <em>The Wine Advocate<\/em>, a giant in the wine sector, overseen by the influential critic Robert Parker, has recognised the quality of <strong>Teso La Monja<\/strong> wines, awarding two labels from the Toro D.O. over 90 points, as they reflect the diversity of styles amongst the &#8220;new classics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/botellas\/ALABASTER-s%C2%B7a-TESO_LA_MONJA-SIERRA_CANTABRIA.jpg\" alt=\"ALABASTER TESO_LA_MONJA-SIERRA_CANTABRIA\" width=\"81\" height=\"122\" \/>Luis Guti\u00e9rrez, a taster for Parker in the Spanish market, placed <strong>Alabaster 2013 <\/strong>among the best-rated wines, with <strong>95 points<\/strong>, a monovarietal of Tinta de Toro grapes obtained from low-yield vineyards featuring old vines and a painstaking approach to production. Guti\u00e9rrez defines it as &#8220;a potent wine faithful to the style of the place, but seeking elegance,&#8221; highlighting the freshness and verticality of the 2013 vintage.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/botellas-teso-la-monja\/VICTORINO-s%C2%B7a-TESO_LA_MONJA-SIERRA_CANTABRIA.jpg\" alt=\"VICTORINO-s\u00b7a-TESO_LA_MONJA-SIERRA_CANTABRIA\" width=\"98\" height=\"147\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Guti\u00e9rrez also gave <strong>94 points<\/strong> to <strong>Victorino 2013<\/strong>, which he described as &#8220;like the coolest wine, and with great balance.&#8221; Marcos Eguren confirmed that &#8220;the 2013 vintage was a good harvest in Toro, resulting in wines containing less alcohol and a very good balance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Toro terroir<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/wp-content\/gallery\/bv-teso-la-monja\/Cepa-centenaria-02-07gt-Teso_La_Monja-Sierra_Cantabria.jpg\" alt=\"Cepa-centenaria-02-07gt-Teso_La_Monja-Sierra_Cantabria\" width=\"324\" height=\"216\" \/>The Rioja family boasts over 100 hectares of vineyards in the Toro D.O., sown in the towns of Valdefinjas, Toro and Villabuena del Puente, some up to 130 years old, in the cases of the lands dedicated to the production of <strong>Alabaster<\/strong> and <strong>Teso La Monja<\/strong>. Here Marcos and Miguel Eguren work with fresher soils \u2013 clayey, with limestone veins in the subsoil \u2013 than those characterising their previous project in Numanthia. The current vineyards also have more gravel on their surfaces, face northwards, and feature longer growing seasons. All these characteristics guarantee the maintenance of their identity, freshness, and elegance.<\/p>\n<p>The family&#8217;s wine-growing project in La Rioja and Toro aims to produce wines that evoke the character of the winery, defined by its versatility and pronounced identity. Marcos and Miguel Eguren, along with their father Guillermo and the new generation, represented by Eduardo Eguren, have striven for excellence in the care they have shown the vineyard and their great respect for the fruit in its cellars, to turn out wines qualifying as new classics; wines that endure over time, fusing fruit, potency and structure with elegance, freshness and subtlety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Guti\u00e9rrez, a Spanish wine taster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sierracantabria.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}