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El Alma de Jonata

  • Red
  • United States
  • Ballard Canyon
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Malbec
  • Merlot
  • Petit Verdot
  • Carménère
Tracked vintages
15
Community notes
147
Merchant offers
33

What we know about this wine

Critics
97/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
90/ 100147 notes, every vintage
Market price
£121per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
Drinking window
2013–2018past its window2009 · 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 13 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Bordeaux Blend.

Body4.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.8 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.7 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · tobacco, chocolate, oak, vanilla, cedar
  • Black fruit · dark fruit, black fruit, blackberry, black cherry, plum
  • Earth · leather, smoke, earthy, pencil shavings, slate
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red currant
  • Spice · pepper, savory, licorice, mint, cinnamon
  • Tree fruit · apple, pear

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.

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.

  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2020
97 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price
2018
£121 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.

El Alma de Jonata monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£1002018£121

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

El Alma de Jonata 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. 8 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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El Alma de Jonata monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2018£12195.5—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022

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