Gaja Ca'Marcanda Magari
- Red
- Italy
- Bolgheri
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Merlot
- Sangiovese
- Tracked vintages
- 17
- Community notes
- 555
- Merchant offers
- 162
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 94/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100555 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £43per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
- Drinking window
- 2015–2030peak2013 · 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 622 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Bolgheri.
- Body3.8 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.9 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, black cherry, black fruit
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, minerals, graphite
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, red cherry, strawberry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, mint, eucalyptus, anise
- Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, dried flowers, hibiscus
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Sangiovese. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2001One 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.
- 2024unit not stated
- 202389drinkersunit not stated
- 202294criticunit not stated
- 202195critic£43 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
- 202096critic£45 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201989criticunit not stated
- 201894critic£37 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 201794critic£51 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201694critic£41 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2019
- 201492criticunit not stated
- 201391critic
- 201292critic
- 201092critic£67 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019
- 200789drinkersunit not stated
- 200491critic£38 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
- 200286critic£23 / 75cl5000 ml in-bond trade, April 2017
- 200189critic£25 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015
- 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
- 2020
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2012
- drinking, window 2014–2028
- Lowest price
- 2002
- £23 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
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | £43 | 94.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024 |
| 2020 | £45 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2018 | £37 | 94.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2017 | £51 | 94 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2016 | £41 | 93.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2019 |
| 2010 | £67 | 92 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019 |
| 2004 | £38 | 91 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016 |
| 2002 | £23 | 86 | No | per 75cl, from a 5000 ml in-bond trade, April 2017 |
| 2001 | £25 | 89 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2015 |
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