César Márquez El Rapolao

Red
Spain
Bierzo
Mencia

Tracked vintages: 5
Community notes: 95
Merchant offers: 13

What we know about this wine

Critics: 93/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 82/ 10095 notes, every vintage
Market price: £28per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
Drinking window: UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track

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 30 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Spanish Mencia.

Body3.5 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.5 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · smoke, balsamic, minerals, graphite, mushroom
Oak · oak, tobacco
Black fruit · black cherry, dark fruit
Spice · savory, licorice, pepper
Red fruit · raspberry, red currant, strawberry
Floral · perfume

Grapes: Mencia. 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.

Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2018; 94 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price: 2018; £28 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

El Rapolao 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. 3 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

El Rapolao monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2018	£28	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020

Where to go next

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