Château d'Yquem

White
France
Bordeaux Supérieur
Sauvignon Blanc
Sémillon
Muscadelle

Tracked vintages: 32
Community notes: 463
Merchant offers: 166

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers: 91/ 100463 notes, every vintage
Market price: £133per 75 cl2023 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
Drinking window: 2025–2040drinking2023 vintage

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 153 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Bordeaux White.

Body3.9 / 5: LightFull
Acidity2.9 / 5: SoftCrisp
Sweetness2.3 / 5: DrySweet

Tree fruit · peach, apricot, pear, apple, green apple
Earth · honey, minerals, stone, ginger, mushroom
Citrus · citrus, lemon, grapefruit, lime, orange peel
Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, mango, passion fruit, guava
Oak · oak, vanilla, butter, caramel, coconut
Yeast and lees · cream, oil, cheese, lemon curd, yeast

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£104–£206GBP per 75 cl · 14 priced vintages

1978One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

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

Best scored: 2021; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2021; drinking, window 2023–2038
Lowest price: 2022; £104 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 trade

Y 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

Y monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2023	£133	94.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2022	£104	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2021	£131	97.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, May 2026
2020	£150	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2019	£206	—	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2018	£133	91	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2025
2017	£117	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
2015	£150	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
2014	£130	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
2013	£139	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2012	£133	92	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2011	£146	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2004	£167	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
1978	£113	—	—	per 75cl, from a 5-bottle in-bond trade, December 2019

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