Château d'Issan Margaux (Grand Cru Classé)

Red
Cabernet Sauvignon
Merlot

Tracked vintages: 61
Community notes: 1,854
Merchant offers: 495

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers: 90/ 1001,854 notes, every vintage
Market price: £42per 75 cl2025 vintage · 3-1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2028–2055hold2024 · 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. Style: Margaux Left Bank Bordeaux red.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5: DrySweet

Earth · crushed gravel
Oak · cedar, tobacco
Floral · violet
Black fruit · blackcurrant

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot. Proportions are not recorded.

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£29–£116Shop asks£42–£181GBP per 75 cl · 26 priced vintages

1983One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2025

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: 2022; 95 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2022; drinking, window 2025–2059
Lowest price: 2017; £29 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

Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) 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. 15 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

Margaux (Grand Cru Classé) monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2025	£42	94.6	—	per 75cl, from a 3-1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
2024	£35	92.4	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2023	£38	94.1	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
2022	£53	95.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2021	£42	92.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
2020	£35	94.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2019	£36	95.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2018	£50	94.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
2017	£29	92.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2016	£63	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2026
2015	£102	93.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
2014	£41	92.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2013	£39	88.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2023
2012	£37	93.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2011	£43	89.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
2010	£71	93.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2009	£54	91.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
2006	£95	90.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2002	£48	85	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
2001	£63	90.8	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2021
2000	£181	90	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1999	£73	89	Yes	per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, August 2019
1996	£78	89	No	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, November 2023
1994	£37	84	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
1988	£42	83	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
1983	£116	85.5	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2021

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