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Isole e Olena

Tracked vintages
28
Community notes
697
Merchant offers
81

What we know about this wine

Critics
92/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
82/ 100697 notes, every vintage
Market price
£31per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window
2020–2037peak2017 · 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 1,126 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Chianti Classico Red.

Body3.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.9 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.6 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.6 / 5
DrySweet
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, mushroom, minerals
  • Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, chocolate
  • Black fruit · plum, black cherry, blackberry, dark fruit, blackcurrant
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, savory, cinnamon, thyme
  • Vegetal · tomato, tomato leaf, rhubarb, sun-dried tomato, bell pepper

Grapes: Sangiovese. 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£12–£25Shop asks£31–£31GBP per 75 cl · 9 priced vintages

1995One 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
94 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2019–2036
Lowest price
2013
£12 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.

Isole e Olena monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£20£302021£312019£172018£202017£172016£252015£222014£202013£121995£15

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Isole e Olena 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. 4 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them
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Isole e Olena monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2021£3194—per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019£1792.5—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2024
2018£2092.3—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2025
2017£1792Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2024
2016£2592.8Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2015£2289.5Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, July 2022
2014£2090.3Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2019
2013£1290—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
1995£15——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016

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