94 Points | International Wine Cellar , September/October 2012

(75% tempranillo, 15% garnacha, 5% graciano and 5% mazuelo):  Full red.  Wild, highly perfumed aromas of candied cherry, plum, anise, cured tobacco, Asian spices and vanilla, with smoke and allspice nuances.  Sappy, seamless and expansive, offering sweet red and dark berry flavors and suggestions of candied rose and spicecake.  In the glass, takes on weight with no loss of vivacity.  Silky tannins build on and carry through a very long, smoke- and mineral-accented finish.  No way I'd have guessed that this was an 18-year-old wine.

96 Points | Robert Parker's The Wine Advocate