Avignonesi Desiderio Merlot
- Red
- Italy
- Toscana
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Canaiolo Nero
- Tracked vintages
- 10
- Community notes
- 353
- Merchant offers
- 90
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 89/ 1002012 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100353 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £41per 75 cl2012 · nearest vintage with a price · 3000 ml in-bond trade, April 2017
- Drinking window
- 2016–2024past its window2012 · 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 849 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black cherry, black fruit, blueberry
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, balsamic, mushroom
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, red currant
- Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, cinnamon, eucalyptus
- Floral · violet, hibiscus, lavender, perfume, potpourri
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese, Canaiolo Nero. 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.
- 202185drinkersunit not stated
- 202083drinkersunit not stated
- 201986drinkersunit not stated
- 201786drinkersunit not stated
- 201385drinkersunit not stated
- 201289critic£41 / 75cl3000 ml in-bond trade, April 2017
- 200094drinkers
- 199991drinkers
- 199885drinkers
- 199790critic
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 1997
- 90 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2012
- £41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | £41 | 89 | No | per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, April 2017 |
Where to go next
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