BOND Melbury
- Red
- United States
- Napa Valley
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 24
- Community notes
- 399
- Merchant offers
- 124
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 100399 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £520per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- Drinking window
- 2021–2036peak2011 · 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 98 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness2.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, chocolate, tobacco, vanilla, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, blueberry, plum, cassis, blackcurrant
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, bing cherry
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, forest floor, minerals
- Spice · licorice, pepper, anise, mint, menthol
- Floral · violet, perfume, acacia, lavender
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.
2012One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
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.
- 2022unit not stated
- 202197criticunit not stated
- 202096criticunit not stated
- 201998criticunit not stated
- 201898critic£520 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
- 201796critic£386 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, October 2026
- 201699critic£561 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, October 2026
- 201597criticunit not stated
- 201496critic£301 / 75cl1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
- 201397criticunit not stated
- 201296critic£225 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
- 201196critic
- 201096drinkersunit not stated
- 200994critic
- 200892critic
- 200792drinkersunit not stated
- 200694drinkersunit not stated
- 200595drinkers
- 200492critic
- 200394critic
- 200294criticunit not stated
- 200197criticunit not stated
- 200093drinkersunit not stated
- 199993drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2016
- 99 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2011
- peak, window 2021–2036
- Lowest price
- 2012
- £225 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £520 | 97.9 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022 |
| 2017 | £386 | 96.2 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026 |
| 2016 | £561 | 98.5 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026 |
| 2014 | £301 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2012 | £225 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017 |
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