Cape Mentelle Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- Australia
- Margaret River
- Cabernet Sauvignon
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 29
- Community notes
- 215
- Merchant offers
- 48
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002017 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 100215 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £44per 75 cl2016 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- Drinking window
- 2020–2030peak2013 · 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 201 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.4 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · blackcurrant, blackberry, cassis, plum, black fruit
- Spice · eucalyptus, mint, pepper, licorice, menthol
- Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, cocoa, minerals
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, red currant
- Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, oil
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.
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.
- 2021unit not stated
- 2020unit not stated
- 2018unit not stated
- 201795criticunit not stated
- 201697critic£44 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- 2015unit not stated
- 201394critic£47 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 2012unit not stated
- 2011unit not stated
- 201092criticunit not stated
- 2009unit not stated
- 200690drinkers
- 200587drinkers
- 200491drinkers
- 200390drinkersunit not stated
- 200290drinkers
- 200192drinkersunit not stated
- 200088drinkers
- 199992drinkersunit not stated
- 199884drinkers
- 199689drinkers
- 199591drinkers
- 199490drinkers
- 199394drinkersunit not stated
- 199292drinkers
- 199193drinkers
- 199093drinkers
- 198888drinkers
- 198790drinkers
- 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
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2013
- peak, window 2020–2030
- Lowest price
- 2016
- £44 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
Where to go next
LWIN 1001385