Joseph Phelps Backus Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- Tracked vintages
- 37
- Community notes
- 609
- Merchant offers
- 29
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002018 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 93/ 100609 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £244per 75 cl2012 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
- Drinking window
- 2025–2040drinking2018 vintage
Flavour and structure
An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.
Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet.
- Body5.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · graphite
- Oak · cedar, dark chocolate
- Black fruit · black cherry, blackberry, cassis
Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.
2007One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2012
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.
- 201897criticunit not stated
- 201597criticunit not stated
- 201496critic
- 201397critic
- 201296critic£244 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
- 201195critic
- 201094critic
- 200995critic
- 200895critic£171 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022
- 200794critic£134 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020
- 200692critic
- 200593drinkers
- 200495critic
- 200392critic
- 200294criticunit not stated
- 200194drinkers
- 200092drinkers
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- 198592drinkers
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- 198193drinkers
- 197892drinkers
- 197791drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2015
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2015
- drinking, window 2025–2035
- Lowest price
- 2007
- £134 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 trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | £244 | 96 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016 |
| 2008 | £171 | 94.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022 |
| 2007 | £134 | 94.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2020 |
Where to go next
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