Castello del Terriccio Lupicaia
- Red
- Italy
- Toscana
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Canaiolo Nero
- Tracked vintages
- 27
- Community notes
- 492
- Merchant offers
- 102
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002019 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 90/ 100492 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £81per 75 cl2010 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- Drinking window
- 2016–2028drinking2008 · 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 725 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Tuscan Red.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · tobacco, oak, chocolate, cedar, coffee
- Black fruit · blackberry, blackcurrant, black fruit, plum, black cherry
- Earth · leather, earthy, balsamic, minerals, cocoa
- Spice · pepper, mint, eucalyptus, licorice, menthol
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, cranberry, sour cherry
- Dried fruit · prune, fig, raisin, dried fruit
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.
1995One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2010
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.
- 201994criticunit not stated
- 201886drinkersunit not stated
- 201787drinkersunit not stated
- 201697criticunit not stated
- 201590drinkersunit not stated
- 201491drinkersunit not stated
- 201388drinkersunit not stated
- 201294criticunit not stated
- 201193criticunit not stated
- 201094critic£81 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
- 200995critic£31 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 200896critic
- 200789drinkersunit not stated
- 200695criticunit not stated
- 200590drinkers
- 200492criticunit not stated
- 200391drinkersunit not stated
- 200293drinkers
- 200194drinkersunit not stated
- 200090drinkersunit not stated
- 199994criticunit not stated
- 199893criticunit not stated
- 199794criticunit not stated
- 199684drinkersunit not stated
- 199593critic£217 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
- 199492drinkersunit not stated
- 199392drinkers
- 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
- 2016
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2008
- drinking, window 2016–2028
- Lowest price
- 2009
- £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.
Solid: a realised in-bond trade
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Where to go next
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