Colgin Cariad

Red
United States
Napa Valley
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Malbec
Merlot
Petit Verdot

Tracked vintages: 23
Community notes: 461
Merchant offers: 86

What we know about this wine

Critics: 100/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 95/ 100461 notes, every vintage
Market price: £541per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2027–2044hold2019 · 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 88 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Bordeaux Blend.

Body4.5 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.7 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.5 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, oak, cedar
Black fruit · black fruit, blackberry, blueberry, black cherry, plum
Earth · leather, smoke, minerals, graphite, stone
Spice · licorice, mint, cinnamon, pepper, anise
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, cherry cola, red cherry
Ageing (non-oak) · hazelnut, pecan, black walnut, molasses, nutty

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot. 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£350–£449Shop asks£331–£553GBP per 75 cl · 8 priced vintages

2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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
Holdits window has not opened
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2019; 100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2018; drinking, window 2024–2043
Lowest price: 2014; £331 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

Cariad 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. 7 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

Cariad monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£541	—	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019	£553	100	No	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2018	£440	100	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2016	£404	100	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2014	£331	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2010	£449	97.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, January 2021
2006	£350	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2005	£442	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022

Where to go next

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