Castello dei Rampolla Sammarco
- Red
- Italy
- Toscana
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Canaiolo Nero
- Tracked vintages
- 36
- Community notes
- 808
- Merchant offers
- 145
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002020 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 89/ 100808 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £30per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- Drinking window
- 2020–2035peak2014 · 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 785 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.
- Body3.5 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, cedar, vanilla
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, tar
- Black fruit · blackberry, black fruit, blackcurrant, dark fruit, plum
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red currant, strawberry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, mint, thyme
- Vegetal · bitter almond, tomato, hay, bell pepper, rhubarb
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.
1986One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
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.
- 202096criticunit not stated
- 201995critic£30 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- 201898critic£42 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
- 201797critic£29 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201697critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201596critic£55 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 201493critic£38 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
- 201397critic£56 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
- 201293critic£43 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
- 201195critic£55 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 200996critic£23 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016
- 200897criticunit not stated
- 200796criticunit not stated
- 200696critic£67 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- 200594critic£54 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
- 200494critic£52 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 200392critic£50 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
- 200090criticunit not stated
- 199995critic£65 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- 199892critic£38 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017
- 199794criticunit not stated
- 199691critic£40 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016
- 199591drinkers
- 199491drinkersunit not stated
- 199391drinkersunit not stated
- 199190critic£45 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
- 199097criticunit not stated
- 198895critic£66 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2016
- 198688critic£46 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016
- 198590drinkers
- 198394drinkers
- 198290critic
- 198085drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2006
- peak, window 2018–2036
- Lowest price
- 2009
- £23 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £30 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025 |
| 2018 | £42 | 98 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024 |
| 2017 | £29 | 96.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2016 | £37 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2015 | £55 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025 |
| 2014 | £38 | 93.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024 |
| 2013 | £56 | 96.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022 |
| 2012 | £43 | 93.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021 |
| 2011 | £55 | 94.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2009 | £23 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016 |
| 2006 | £67 | 95.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022 |
| 2005 | £54 | 93.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022 |
| 2004 | £52 | 94.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 2003 | £50 | 92.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017 |
| 1999 | £65 | 94.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020 |
| 1998 | £38 | 91.7 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2017 |
| 1996 | £40 | 91.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2016 |
| 1991 | £45 | 89.5 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017 |
| 1988 | £66 | 95 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2016 |
| 1986 | £46 | 88 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016 |
Where to go next
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