"Glass-staining ruby. Explosive, smoke- and spice-accented dark berry compote and floral scents are complicated by notes of spicecake and vanilla. Sweet and expansive on the palate, offering intense black raspberry and cherry-cola flavors and a refreshing touch of blood orange. Rich but energetic, with superb finishing clarity, slow-building tannins and lingering sweetness. - JR"
Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar (September 2013), 93 pts
Go To Pago de Carraovejas El Anejon
"The 2009 Pago de Carrovejas El Anajon de la Cuesta de las Liebres (to give it its full name), is Tinto Fino blended with 6% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Merlot and raised for 12 months in French oak, has a much better, more refined bouquet with blackberry and raspberry fruit, a suggestion of wild heather and cedar. The palate is full-bodied with good backbone and structure, while the crisp acidity keeps the graphite-tinged finish agile and focused. This is very impressive. Drink now-2017." - Wine Advocate (Neal Martin, Issue#205, February 2013), 93 pts
Wine Advocate (Neal Martin, Issue#205, February 2013), 93 pts
"More open-knit, the 2009 El Anejon (93% Tinto Fino, 6% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 1% Merlot aged two years in French oak) offers a sexy perfume of vanilla-laced cassis, spice, lead pencil, and dried earth. Full-bodied and concentrated on the palate, it’s silky and polished, with no hard edges. Now at age 10, it’s showing some maturity and drinking nicely yet should keep for another decade."
- Jeb Dunnuck (March 27th 2019), 95 pts
"Packed with youthful fruit and spice, this wine is all potential energy for now, like a caged animal lurking inside an oak crate. Give the fruit time to mellow and integrate with the primary oak; in three or four years this will move toward a smoother complexity."
- Wine & Spirits Magazine (June 2015), 90 pts
"This powerful red shows loamy earth, sanguine and tarry notes. A bit austere, but there's a core of plum and mineral that's fresh and lively. Concentrated and harmonious. Drink now through 2030.—T.M."
- Wine Spectator (January 31st 2015), 93 pts
"The 2010 El Anejon de Cuesta Las Liebres is produced with grapes grown at high altitude on chalky soils 96% Tempranillo, 3% Cabernet Sauvignon and 1% Merlot and aged one year in barrel. Of the whole lineup, it-s a clean, delineated, harmonious red, with a more lively palate, and is more soil-driven, with a chalky, supple, almost salty sensation. It has great length and acidity and should develop slowly and for a long time. Drink 2014-2025. - Luis Gutierrez"
- Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate (Issue #214, August 2014), 94 pts
- Jeb Dunnuck (March 27th 2019), 96+ pts
