Bouchard Père & Fils

Tracked vintages: 14
Community notes: 134
Merchant offers: 43

What we know about this wine

Critics: 94/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers: 88/ 100134 notes, every vintage
Market price: £285per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
Drinking window: 2020–2038peak2015 · 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 37 community ratings, read 2026-08-12.

Body2.9 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin2.5 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · leather, minerals, mushroom, earthy, forest floor
Red fruit · cherry, strawberry, red cherry, raspberry, red fruit
Oak · oak, coffee, tobacco, vanilla, caramel
Spice · savory, licorice, pepper, anise, menthol
Floral · violet, honeysuckle, lilac
Yeast and lees · cheese, cream

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£161–£285Shop asks£261–£261GBP per 75 cl · 4 priced vintages

1997One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2018; 95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2014; peak, window 2023–2033
Lowest price: 1997; £161 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

Bouchard Père & Fils monthly median by vintage, per 75cl · Each bar is one month of one SKU; the table below names the case size, the tape and the month behind every figure. 6 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Bouchard Père & Fils monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£285	93	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
2020	£259	93.3	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
2018	£261	94.7	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1997	£161	—	—	per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021

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