Delea Carato Merlot Riserva
- Red
- Switzerland
- Ticino
- Tracked vintages
- 13
- Community notes
- 92
- Merchant offers
- 14
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 83/ 10092 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
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 49 community ratings, read 2026-08-12.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, coffee, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, black fruit, black cherry, blackcurrant
- Earth · leather, smoke, balsamic, minerals
- Spice · pepper, coriander, eucalyptus, mint, thyme
- Vegetal · tomato, asparagus, bell pepper, sun-dried tomato
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast, brown sugar, marzipan
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.
Every score below is a community score.
- 2022unit not stated
- 202184unit not stated
- 202086unit not stated
- 201984unit not stated
- 201788unit not stated
- 201180unit not stated
- 201082unit not stated
- 200990unit not stated
- 200780unit not stated
- 200378unit not stated
- 2002unit not stated
- 2000unit not stated
- 1998unit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2009
- 90 / 100 from drinkers