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Château Certan de May

  • Red
Tracked vintages
51
Community notes
651
Merchant offers
69

What we know about this wine

Critics
94/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers
91/ 100651 notes, every vintage
Market price
£47per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
Drinking window
2024–2048drinking2021 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet.

Body4.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · truffle, gravel, tobacco leaf
  • Oak · cedar
  • Black fruit · black plum, cassis

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£22–£168GBP per 75 cl · 11 priced vintages

1982One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

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
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
1982
94 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
1982
drinking, window 2005–2030
Lowest price
1993
£22 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.

Certan de May monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£100£1502020£472019£462015£692012£522010£652009£702008£522005£731993£221983£1361982£168

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Certan de May 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
View as a table
Certan de May monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2020£4790.8Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2019£4690.5Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2015£6993Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
2012£5292Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
2010£6591.5Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2009£7093Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
2008£5291.2Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
2005£7392.8Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
1993£22——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
1983£136——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
1982£16894.4Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017

Where to go next

LWIN 1007909