Dow's

Tracked vintages: 23
Community notes: 121
Merchant offers: 46

What we know about this wine

Critics: 96/ 1002024 vintage
Real drinkers: 93/ 100121 notes, every vintage
Market price: £65per 75 cl2017 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
Drinking window: 2025–2080drinking2017 · nearest vintage with a window

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.

Body5.0 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness4.0 / 5: DrySweet

Spice · licorice
Dried fruit · fig, prune, raisin
Oak · dark chocolate
Black fruit · black plum, blackberry, cassis

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£34–£147GBP per 75 cl · 11 priced vintages

1963One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2017

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: 2011; 98 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2011; drinking, window 2020–2048
Lowest price: 1991; £34 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

Dow's 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

Dow's monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2017	£65	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
2003	£36	92.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2021
2000	£35	93.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
1997	£36	92.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
1994	£55	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2026
1991	£34	91	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
1985	£41	89.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015
1983	£75	92.7	No	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018
1977	£144	93.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021
1975	£62	85	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2018
1963	£147	—	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021

Where to go next

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