Aperture Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Alexander Valley
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 6
- Community notes
- 64
- Merchant offers
- 6
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 10064 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £89per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- Drinking window
- 2020–2042peak2018 · nearest vintage with a window
Flavour and structure
What drinkers taste in this wine across its vintages, and how it is built: body, acidity, tannin and sweetness on a five-point scale, with the number of ratings behind them.
Structure from 152 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon Red.
- Body4.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.1 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, blueberry, plum, dark fruit, black fruit
- Oak · vanilla, oak, tobacco, chocolate, dark chocolate
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, minerals, graphite
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, cranberry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, eucalyptus, mint
- Yeast and lees · cream, banana
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
Vintages
Each vintage has its own page with both scores, the drinking window and the merchant price range. The meter is the score on a 60-100 scale and its colour is where that vintage stands against its own drinking window. Prices are per 75cl, with the case size and month they were taken from.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2023unit not stated
- 2021unit not stated
- 202097
- 201995unit not stated
- 201894£89 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- 201791
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2020
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2018
- peak, window 2020–2042
- Lowest price
- 2018
- £89 per 75 cl
Price by vintage
One monthly median per vintage, divided by the case size it was quoted in, so the bars are the same unit. These are our own aggregates, not offers: nobody will sell you a median.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £89 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022 |
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