De Trafford Cabernet Franc
- Red
- South Africa
- Stellenbosch
- Tracked vintages
- 4
- Community notes
- 50
- Merchant offers
- 13
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 91/ 1002013 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 10050 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £23per 75 cl2015 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- Drinking window
- 2019–2025past its window2013 · 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 4 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12.
- Body3.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.6 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.8 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, dark fruit, cassis, black cherry
- Oak · cedar, dark chocolate, tobacco, oak, chocolate
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, ash, barbecue meat
- Spice · cinnamon, licorice, white pepper, green herbs, savory
- Red fruit · red fruit, cherry
- Dried fruit · prune, fig
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
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.
- 201589drinkers£23 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
- 201482drinkers£22 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
- 201391criticunit not stated
- 201290critic
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2013
- 91 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2014
- £22 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
Where to go next
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