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Red
United States
Rutherford
Cabernet Sauvignon
Cabernet Franc
Malbec
Merlot
Petit Verdot

Tracked vintages: 15
Community notes: 263
Merchant offers: 388

What we know about this wine

Critics: 95/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers: 91/ 100263 notes, every vintage
Market price: £129per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
Drinking window: 2025–2045drinking2022 vintage

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 167 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Bordeaux Blend.

Body4.7 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.4 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, cedar
Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, blackcurrant, black fruit, cassis
Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
Spice · pepper, cinnamon, licorice, eucalyptus, anise
Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red currant
Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, yeast

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot. 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£90–£138Shop asks£151–£208GBP per 75 cl · 11 priced vintages

2009One 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: 2021; 97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2021; drinking, window 2023–2052
Lowest price: 2017; £90 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

Rubicon 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. 2 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

Rubicon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£129	97.1	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2024
2020	£151	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019	£174	96.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2018	£116	94.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2017	£90	95.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2023
2016	£101	96	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2015	£115	94.2	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2014	£208	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, September 2026
2013	£126	94.9	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
2011	£133	90.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016
2009	£138	90.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2020

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