Ataraxia Chardonnay
- White
- South Africa
- Hemel-en-Aarde Valley
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 15
- Community notes
- 240
- Merchant offers
- 17
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002023 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 100240 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £25per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024
- Drinking window
- 2023–2034peak2022 · 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 164 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Chardonnay.
- Body3.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness1.9 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, butterscotch, caramel
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, grapefruit, lemon zest
- Tree fruit · pear, peach, apple, apricot, green apple
- Earth · minerals, stone, honey, smoke, saline
- Yeast and lees · cream, oil, yeast, banana, cheese
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, hazelnut, almond, nutty, brioche
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2013One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023
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.
- 202482drinkersunit not stated
- 202393critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024
- 202293critic£29 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
- 202094critic£23 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201970drinkers
- 201895critic£33 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
- 201794critic£25 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
- 201696critic£45 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- 201595critic£17 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
- 201493critic£15 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
- 201391critic£19 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, October 2015
- 2009unit not stated
- 200890drinkers
- 200790drinkers
- 200690drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2016
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2018
- peak, window 2020–2028
- Lowest price
- 2014
- £15 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | £25 | 93 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024 |
| 2022 | £29 | 93.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024 |
| 2020 | £23 | 94 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 2018 | £33 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026 |
| 2017 | £25 | 93.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021 |
| 2016 | £45 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020 |
| 2015 | £17 | 94.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017 |
| 2014 | £15 | 93 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017 |
| 2013 | £19 | 91.3 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2015 |
Where to go next
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