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Canalicchio di Sopra

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages
26
Community notes
549
Merchant offers
92

What we know about this wine

Critics
95/ 1002021 vintage
Real drinkers
88/ 100549 notes, every vintage
Market price
£46per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2023
Drinking window
2020–2033peak2014 · 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 520 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Brunello.

Body3.3 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.8 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.6 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · leather, earthy, balsamic, mushroom, smoke
  • Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, vanilla, cedar
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
  • Black fruit · plum, black cherry, blackberry, dark fruit, black fruit
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, mint, menthol
  • Dried fruit · fig, prune, raisin, dried fruit, dried blackberry

Grapes: Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.

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

Realised in-bond trades£31–£67GBP per 75 cl · 8 priced vintages

2007One 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.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside its stated window
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2016
96 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2013
peak, window 2020–2035
Lowest price
2017
£31 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.

Canalicchio di Sopra monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£20£40£602018£462017£312016£542015£342013£672012£552011£372007£38

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Canalicchio di Sopra 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. 4 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Canalicchio di Sopra monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£4695—per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, February 2023
2017£3194.3—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2016£5496—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
2015£3495—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
2013£6795.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2012£5594Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2021
2011£3794Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
2007£3893Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2019

Where to go next

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