Dalla Valle Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Napa Valley
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 30
- Community notes
- 1,240
- Merchant offers
- 121
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 92/ 1001,240 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £219per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- Drinking window
- 2009–2035peak2005 · 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 219 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.4 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.5 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, plum, black fruit, blackcurrant
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, cedar
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, minerals
- Spice · licorice, pepper, anise, cinnamon, eucalyptus
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
- Dried fruit · raisin, prune, dried fruit, fig, golden raisin
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
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.
- 202190drinkersunit not stated
- 2020unit not stated
- 201998critic£219 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
- 201898critic£189 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
- 201796critic£277 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201696criticunit not stated
- 201596critic£182 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2020
- 201397criticunit not stated
- 200795drinkersunit not stated
- 200692drinkers
- 200593critic£98 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 200494drinkers
- 200392drinkersunit not stated
- 200294drinkersunit not stated
- 200193drinkers
- 200092drinkers
- 199993drinkers
- 199891drinkers
- 199792drinkersunit not stated
- 199692drinkersunit not stated
- 199593drinkers
- 199493drinkersunit not stated
- 199391critic
- 199293drinkers
- 199190drinkers
- 199092drinkers
- 198992drinkers
- 198889drinkersunit not stated
- 198791drinkers
- 198687drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2005
- peak, window 2009–2035
- Lowest price
- 2005
- £98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £219 | 97.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022 |
| 2018 | £189 | 97.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022 |
| 2017 | £277 | 95.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2015 | £182 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2020 |
| 2005 | £98 | 93.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
Where to go next
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