Domaine du Vieux Télégraphe Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf-du-Pape

Tracked vintages: 34
Community notes: 115
Merchant offers: 89

What we know about this wine

Critics: 96/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers: 91/ 100115 notes, every vintage
Market price: £46per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
Drinking window: 2027–2043hold2023 vintage

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet.

Body4.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5: DrySweet

Spice · dried herbs, pepper
Earth · game, leather
Red fruit · raspberry
Black fruit · blackberry

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£36–£95GBP per 75 cl · 21 priced vintages

1983One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

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 critic score.

Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
Drinkinginside its stated window
Holdits window has not opened
Past its windowits window has closed
Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone

Best scored: 2016; 96 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2016; peak, window 2018–2043
Lowest price: 2018; £36 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

Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf-du-Pape 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

View as a table

Vieux Telegraphe Chateauneuf-du-Pape monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2020	£46	93	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2019	£37	95.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3000 ml in-bond trade, January 2026
2018	£36	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2017	£42	94.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2016	£45	96.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2015	£44	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024
2014	£61	91.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2012	£43	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
2010	£56	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2007	£53	93.9	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2006	£42	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2020
2005	£54	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
2003	£51	91.2	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017
2001	£52	90.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022
2000	£77	90.3	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
1999	£45	90.5	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2018
1998	£72	92.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
1996	£41	89	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
1995	£54	92.5	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
1994	£75	93	No	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020
1983	£95	90	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2017

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