Don Melchor Cabernet Sauvignon

Red
Chile
Puente Alto
Cabernet Sauvignon

Tracked vintages: 28
Community notes: 468
Merchant offers: 122

What we know about this wine

Critics: 97/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers: 92/ 100468 notes, every vintage
Market price: £95per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
Drinking window: 2024–2042drinking2021 · 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 4,358 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Chilean Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.3 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.2 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, vanilla, coffee
Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, cassis, dark fruit
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, eucalyptus, menthol
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, cranberry
Dried fruit · fig, prune, raisin, dried fruit, black 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.

Realised in-bond trades£40–£113GBP per 75 cl · 19 priced vintages

1990One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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.

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

Best scored: 2018; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2018; peak, window 2020–2042
Lowest price: 2020; £40 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

Cabernet Sauvignon 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

Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£95	96.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2020	£40	95.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2019	£46	96.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
2018	£58	97.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2017	£45	95.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
2016	£72	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2015	£78	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2014	£85	96.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2013	£76	94.2	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2023
2012	£51	95.3	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
2011	£82	94.9	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
2010	£91	95.4	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2009	£74	93.4	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2022
2008	£58	92.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
2007	£47	92.4	No	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, March 2018
2006	£55	93.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2017
2005	£68	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016
2004	£64	92.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
1990	£113	82	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017

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