Etienne Sauzet

White
France
Montrachet Grand Cru
Chardonnay
Pinot Gris
Pinot Blanc
Aligoté

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages: 26
Community notes: 132
Merchant offers: 53

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002024 vintage
Real drinkers: 94/ 100132 notes, every vintage
Market price: £950per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
Drinking window: 2026–2048drinking2021 · 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 65 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Burgundy Côte de Beaune White.

Body3.8 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.3 / 5: SoftCrisp
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Tree fruit · peach, apricot, stone fruit, apple, pear
Earth · honey, minerals, stone, smoke, truffle
Citrus · lemon, citrus, tangerine, lemon peel, lime
Oak · butter, oak, vanilla, butterscotch, chocolate
Yeast and lees · cream, banana, oil, cheese, yeast
Tropical fruit · pineapple, tropical, mango

Grapes: Chardonnay, Pinot Gris, Pinot Blanc, Aligoté. 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£597–£1,250Shop asks£2,263–£2,263GBP per 75 cl · 10 priced vintages

2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

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: 2023; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2008; peak, window 2018–2030
Lowest price: 2005; £597 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

Etienne Sauzet 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. 9 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

Etienne Sauzet monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2023	£950	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2022	£1,057	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
2021	£1,250	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2023
2020	£1,099	96.5	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
2019	£995	95.6	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2018	£998	94.9	—	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2024
2015	£2,263	92.8	—	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2009	£917	95.3	—	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
2008	£917	94.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
2005	£597	95.5	No	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2018

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