El Anejón 2016

The grapes are harvested completely manually in small crates and after an extensive monitoring during growth and after an initial selection in the vineyard, the 2nd selection takes place. The grapes then go to a cold room and then to the final selection table. Everything at Carraovejas takes place by gravity, so nowhere pumps that move the must and wine too aggressively and often with too much oxygen. The wine then goes for fermentation in small wooden barriques with native yeasts. This gets all the time. The malolactic fermentation takes place in the same barrels and after that the Anejon goes by gravity one floor lower to the barrel cellar where it can mature in new French oak for at least 12 months.

2015 was an extraordinary vintage with its atypical maturation cycle. Winter was not particularly cold,
with a limited number of frost days and little rain. All this resulted in the first shoots already coming in late March. With the rise in temperatures and increased rainfall, the vines began to sprout in April. In the 2nd half of May there were several days with severe frost, which caused a serious natural thinning of the grapes for this already very scarce wine. Then everything went according to the book with some more rain in summer and drought in the last months of the ripening cycle and this brought a calm and orderly harvest, which started on September 24 and ended on October 15 with a low yield but of great quality and excellent grape health.

The Anejón shows us the smell of the terraces of the Ribera del Duero. High up in the Ribera del Duero with an almost manic focus on quality, great wines are made here. This winery is also the owner of Ossian, the famous Rueda winery with its Verdejo vineyards, sometimes 150+ years old. The wine is a blend of Tempranillo (75%), Cabernet Sauvignon (10%) and Merlot (15%) and is only produced in the exceptional years. The balance is the basis of the fine, delicate and at the same time intense character of the wine. On the one hand, the scents of flowers integrated with a powerful fruit show the liveliness of the environment. On the other hand, it emits freshness and a lively and energy, characteristic of a location as unique and real as the terraces of the Carraovejas.