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Château Filhot

  • Dessert
  • France
  • Sauternes
  • Sauvignon Blanc
  • Sémillon
  • Muscadelle
Tracked vintages
84
Community notes
820
Merchant offers
113

What we know about this wine

Critics
88/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
88/ 100820 notes, every vintage
Market price
£19per 75 cl2005 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
Drinking window
2007–2030drinking2001 · 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 124 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux Sauternes.

Body4.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity4.3 / 5
SoftCrisp
Sweetness4.9 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · honey, beeswax, ginger, stone, wax
  • Tree fruit · apricot, peach, apple, pear, melon
  • Citrus · marmalade, orange, citrus, orange peel, lemon
  • Oak · vanilla, caramel, oak, toffee, butter
  • Tropical fruit · pineapple, mango, tropical, lychee, passion fruit
  • Dried fruit · dried apricot, raisin, dried fruit, fig, dried mango

Grapes: Sauvignon Blanc, Sémillon, Muscadelle. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

Realised in-bond trades£13–£38GBP per 75 cl · 4 priced vintages

1988One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2005

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.

  • 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
2017
92 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2001
drinking, window 2007–2030
Lowest price
2001
£13 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.

Château Filhot monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£20£302005£192001£131990£381988£18

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Château Filhot 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. 36 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Château Filhot monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2005£1988—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
2001£1386.7Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2019
1990£3889—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2019
1988£1888—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016

Where to go next

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