Teso la Monja Victorino 2016
The Eguren family sought to honor Victorino Eguren with this elegant, complex, fresh expression of Tinta de Toro. Sourced from some of the finest ungrafted vineyards in Toro, the Eguren family’s philosophy is to discover the elegance of Tinta de Toro. Victorino is the most muscular wine from Teso la Monja.
Critical Acclaim
A smaller production cuvée that’s from top sites and old vines, the 2016 Victorino is all Tinta de Toro that spent 20 months in new French oak. It’s on another level and has rocking richness and depth as well as notes of blackcurrants, chocolate, smoked herbs, and graphite. Full-bodied, multi-dimensional, ripe and sexy on the palate, it’s a gorgeous, flawlessly balanced red to enjoy over the coming 10-15 years, probably longer
Glass-staining ruby. Powerful, smoke-accented aromas of ripe black and blue fruits, floral oil, licorice and baking spices. Conveys a suave blend of richness and energy, offering palate-staining boysenberry, cherry liqueur, vanilla and fruitcake flavors and a building star anise quality. The floral element repeats strongly on the impressively long finish, which features gripping tannins and lingering notes of cherry pit and cracked pepper.
A big and very rich wine with chewy and polished tannins and lots of ripe fruit and density. Full body. Chewy tannins. Muscular and powerful. Yet, it’s fresh. Needs three or four years to be ready.
I was able to compare two vintages of a couple of wines, as was the case with the 2016 Victorino, which I tasted next to the 2017. 2016 was a cold and wet year that resulted in a long harvest after slow ripening of the grapes. For this cuvée, they select grapes from vineyards between 45 and up to 100 years of age that ferment destemmed in stainless steel and mature in brand-new French barriques for 20 months. Surprisingly enough, this has a lot more structure and tannins than the 2017, which felt lighter and more approachable; this is full-bodied and powerful, a concentrated year despite the higher yields. They harvested the grapes in October, quite late. Wait a bit. 40,000 bottles produced. It was bottled in August 2018.
Cocoa and clove notes accent a core of blackberry, espresso, licorice and loamy earth flavors in this rich red. The muscular tannins are well-integrated and balanced by balsamic acidity. Harmonious, in the modern style.
Teso la Monja
Teso La Monja was founded in 2007 by Marcos and Miguel Angel Eguren, the fourth winemaking generation of the Eguren family from San Vicente de la Sonsierra in Rioja Alavesa. As they have been growing Tempranillo in Rioja Alavesa since the late 1800’s, the Eguren family fell in love with D.O. Toro when they first travelled there with Jorge Ordóñez, seduced by the region’s original clone of Tempranillo and ungrafted vines.
Jorge Ordóñez and the Eguren family were the original founders of Bodegas Numanthia, which was responsible, along with their current work, for the resurrection of D.O. Toro as one of Spain’s preeminent wine regions. After the sale of Numanthia in 2007, the Eguren family founded Teso La Monja as a new challenge for the family – finding the elegance in the wines of Toro.
The family selected vineyards in the northernmost part of D.O. Toro that have a much higher proportion of rounded stones than what is typical. This produces extremely silky, elegant wines. The winemaker, Marcos Eguren, is considered by many to be the finest winemaker in Spain. His son, Eduardo Eguren, the fifth generation, also works as the winemaker at Teso La Monja.
ESO Jester’s Festival Event Guide 2022
Welcome to the Jester’s Festival Event Guide for ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). The Jester Festival: Publicize the pointless and the preposterous with a pretend party sure to perplex the pretentious and the pessimistic but please your puerile peers who profess a passion for playfulness and princely porcine prizes.
During this years Jester’s Festival Event, you can earn special event-specific rewards and enjoy a 100% XP boost while completing some truly absurd Jester’s Festival quests.
Where is the Jester’s Festival event located in ESO?
You can find the Jester’s Festival event location in Stonefalls, Auridion and Glenumbra zone in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). You will have to visit the pavilions located outside the cities of:
Ebonheart -Stonefalls Zone (Ebonheart Pact)
Vulkhel Guard -Auridion Zone (Aldmeri Dominion)
Daggerfall -Glenumbra Zone (Daggerfall Covenant)
If you have trouble finding the place you can also pick up the ESO Jester’s Festival starter quest in the Crown Store.
Intro Quest Jester Festival Event for ESO
You can pick up the intro quest from the Crown Store. Once you completed the intro quest for the Jester’s Festival in ESO, you will be rewarded with The Pie of Misrule Memento. By activating the memento you will gain the 100% experience boost , make sure to reactivate the buff once it runs out. If you need grind guides please visit the Grind Guides section.
The Pie is located in the collections in the tools tab.
Rewards in the Jester’s Festival for ESO
When you complete a Jester’s Festival daily quest in ESO, you’ll receive a Jester’s Festival Reward Box as an additional prize. These wonderful wares can contain goodies such as valuables (to sell to vendors for gold), consumables, recipes, furnishings, Revelry Pies, and fragments of the new Playful Prankster’s Surprise Box memento.
But wait, there’s more! The first time you complete a daily quest each day, you’ll receive a Stupendous Reward Box instead of the regular one. This special box can include the same items as detailed above, but it also has a chance to contain these items:
- Fragments of two mementos: the Festive Noise Maker or Jester’s Festival Joke Popper
- Jokey Stealies to sell to vendors
- Runeboxes containing the Cherry Blossom Branch or Jester’s Scintillator mementos
- “Mirth Shard” fragments of the Playful Prankster’s Surprise Box memento
- “Sovereign” fragments of the Sovereign Sow pet
- “Festive Noise Maker Parts” fragments of the Festive Noise Maker memento furnishing Item
- New –Second Seed Outfit Style Pages
- New –Cadwell’s Surprise Box memento
- Revelry shards, which you need 5 of, have a higher chance of dropping in Stupendous Reward Boxes than they do in regular ones.
Below you can see the new rewards Second Seed Outfit Style Pages and the Cadwell’s Surprise Box memento that you can obtain during the ESO Jester’s Festival Event.
Event Tickets during the Jester’s Festival for ESO
Like always you can also earn ESO Event Tickets during the Jester’s Festival Event. Earn 3 Event Tickets when you complete your first daily quest during the Jester’s Festival.
The Impresario Event Merchant will stock the following items during the Jester’s Festival event in ESO:
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base fragments
- Including the Hallowed Hourglass Basin, Illuminated Dragon Scroll and Kvatchian Incense
- Including the Aureate Anointing Oils, the Lustrous Ritual Sand and the new Sacred Scale
- Description
- Additional information
If you want to learn more about the Impresario and what items were available in the past years please visit the Impresario Merchant Event Guide Page.
Rewards from previous years that still drop in the Reward Boxes
There are also still plenty of rewards to be obtained that dropped from previous Jester Festival Events in ESO (The Elder Scrolls Online).
Playful Prankster’s Surprise Box
To obtain the Playful Prankster’s Surprise Box memento during the Jester’s Festival in ESO you will need 5 “Mirth Shard” fragments and combine them. The shards drop from the Jester’s Festival reward boxes.
Sovereign Sow Pet
The Sovereign Sow pet can be obtained by combining all the seven “Sovereign fodder” fragments that drop in the reward boxes of the ESO Jester’s Festival Event. The fragments are called: Sovereign Fodder, Sovereign Sash, Sovereign Tiara, Sovereign Brush, Sovereign Lead, Sovereign Libations, Sovereign Oil.
The fragments have a very low drop rate.
Festive Noise Maker Memento
The Festive Noise Maker memento can be obtained by combining “Festive Noise Maker Parts” fragments together that you can acquire during the Jester’s Festival Event in ESO.
Cherry Blossom Branch Memento
The Cherry Blossom Branch memento can also be obtained during the Jester’s Festival from the reward boxes.
Jester’s Scintillator Memento
Jester’s Scintillator mementos can also be obtained during the Jester’s Festival from the reward boxes.
Jester’s Festival Joke Popper Memento
The Jester’s Festival Joke Popper memento can be obtained by collecting five parts of the Joke Popper Parts during the Jester’s festival Event in ESO.
Regal Regalia Outfit Style Pages
The Regal Regalia Outfit Style pages can be obtained from the reward boxes during the Jester’s Festival Event in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online).
Jester’s Coffer Furnishing Item
You can also obtain the Jester’s Coffer furnishing item in the Jester’s Festival reward boxes in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online).
Where can I get the Jester Personality in ESO?
The Jester Personality is available in the Crown Store during the Jester’s Festival event in ESO.
Where can I get the Catwell non combat pet in ESO?
The Catwell non combat pet is available in the Crown Store during the Jester’s festival in ESO.
Now you know everything that you need to know about the Jester’s Festival Event in ESO (Elder Scrolls Online). Make sure to log in daily to at least get the daily special reward box during the event.
Teso la Monja Victorino Toro Spanish Red Wine 750 mL
The Eguren family sought to honor Victorino Eguren with this elegant, complex, fresh expression of Tinta de Toro. Sourced from some of the finest ungrafted vineyards in Toro, the Eguren family’s philosophy is to discover the elegance of Tinta de Toro. Victorino is the most muscular wine from Teso la Monja.
Description
Jeb Dunnuck 96 Points – A smaller production cuvée that’s from top sites and old vines, the 2016 Victorino is all Tinta de Toro that spent 20 months in new French oak. It’s on another level and has rocking richness and depth as well as notes of blackcurrants, chocolate, smoked herbs, and graphite. Full-bodied, multi-dimensional, ripe and sexy on the palate, it’s a gorgeous, flawlessly balanced red to enjoy over the coming 10-15 years, probably longer
Vinous 95 Points – Glass-staining ruby. Powerful, smoke-accented aromas of ripe black and blue fruits, floral oil, licorice and baking spices. Conveys a suave blend of richness and energy, offering palate-staining boysenberry, cherry liqueur, vanilla and fruitcake flavors and a building star anise quality. The floral element repeats strongly on the impressively long finish, which features gripping tannins and lingering notes of cherry pit and cracked pepper.