Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
- White
- United States
- Napa Valley
- Chardonnay
- Tracked vintages
- 13
- Community notes
- 397
- Merchant offers
- 114
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 100397 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £50per 75 cl2022 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- Drinking window
- 2015–2021past its window2013 · 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 413 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Chardonnay.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Sweetness2.2 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, butter, vanilla, baking spice, caramel
- Tree fruit · pear, green apple, apple, peach, melon
- Citrus · citrus, lemon, lime, grapefruit, lemon zest
- Earth · minerals, honey, stone, ginger, flint
- Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, oil, banana, lemon curd
- Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, mango, kiwi, lychee
Grapes: Chardonnay. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2011One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
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.
- 202385drinkersunit not stated
- 202285drinkers£50 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 202187drinkersunit not stated
- 202088drinkers£54 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
- 201988drinkersunit not stated
- 201892critic£128 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201794criticunit not stated
- 201694critic£69 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 201588drinkersunit not stated
- 201491criticunit not stated
- 201388critic£28 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
- 201290drinkersunit not stated
- 201193critic£60 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2017
- 94 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £50 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025 |
| 2020 | £54 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025 |
| 2018 | £128 | 92 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2016 | £69 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2013 | £28 | 88 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016 |
| 2011 | £60 | 92.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2022 |
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