De Trafford Merlot

Red
South Africa
Stellenbosch
Merlot

Tracked vintages: 16
Community notes: 70
Merchant offers: 24

What we know about this wine

Critics: 85/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 86/ 10070 notes, every vintage
Market price: £40per 75 cl2019 vintage · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window: 2018–2020past its window2012 · 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 59 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Merlot.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity2.8 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin2.7 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.1 / 5: DrySweet

Black fruit · plum, blackberry, dark fruit, black fruit, black cherry
Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, cedar, coffee
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, forest floor, cocoa
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, cranberry, strawberry
Spice · pepper, eucalyptus, licorice, savory, mint
Dried fruit · dried cranberry, fig, prune, raisin

Grapes: Merlot. 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£12–£23Shop asks£40–£40GBP per 75 cl · 8 priced vintages

2009One 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.

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

Best scored: 2015; 94 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price: 2013; £12 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

Merlot 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. 3 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

Merlot monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2019	£40	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2015	£19	94	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2020
2014	£17	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
2013	£12	—	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2012	£22	85	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
2011	£15	90	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2010	£23	89	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2022
2009	£16	88	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2023

Where to go next

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