Château d'Yquem

Dessert
France
Sauternes
Sémillon
Sauvignon Blanc

Tracked vintages: 122
Community notes: 6,543
Merchant offers: 1,545

What we know about this wine

Critics: 100/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers: 95/ 1006,543 notes, every vintage
Market price: £231per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
Drinking window: From 2030hold2022 · 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: Sauternes sweet white.

Body5.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity4.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Sweetness5.0 / 5: DrySweet

Citrus · marmalade
Spice · candied ginger
Earth · beeswax, honey
Dried fruit · dried apricot
Tropical fruit · pineapple

Grapes: Sémillon, Sauvignon Blanc. 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£138–£1,336Shop asks£776–£11,461GBP per 75 cl · 46 priced vintages

1931One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

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: 2001; 100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2001; drinking, window From 2010
Lowest price: 1993; £138 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

d'Yquem 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. 35 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

d'Yquem monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2020	£231	95.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
2017	£281	96.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2023
2016	£239	97.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2015	£189	98.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
2013	£262	94.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2024
2011	£230	95.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2010	£292	97.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2009	£287	98.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2026
2007	£250	96.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2006	£209	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, October 2018
2005	£421	96.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2004	£206	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2020
2003	£197	96.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2002	£192	92.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
2001	£459	99.8	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
1999	£203	90.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
1997	£200	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 5000 ml in-bond trade, June 2021
1994	£198	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
1993	£138	90	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2017
1990	£303	95.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
1989	£342	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2022
1988	£309	96.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
1987	£470	90.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
1986	£310	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
1985	£163	90.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6000 ml in-bond trade, October 2018
1984	£223	86.7	No	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
1983	£295	95.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 2-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
1982	£318	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2020
1981	£142	90	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2015
1980	£227	90.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
1976	£552	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
1975	£547	97.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
1973	£312	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2020
1971	£776	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, October 2026
1970	£341	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
1967	£1,229	98.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
1965	£1,899	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1960	£426	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
1959	£701	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2015
1955	£2,686	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1943	£1,336	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
1941	£2,763	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1940	£6,880	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1935	£8,025	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1934	£11,461	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
1931	£956	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2019

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