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Kaiken Ultra Malbec

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages
12
Community notes
527
Merchant offers
69

What we know about this wine

Critics
91/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers
81/ 100527 notes, every vintage
Market price
£16per 75 cl2012 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016
Drinking window
2015–2020past its window2012 · 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 2,254 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Argentinian Mendoza Malbec Red.

Body3.9 / 5
LightFull
Acidity2.7 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin2.5 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness2.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, dark chocolate
  • Black fruit · plum, blueberry, blackberry, black fruit, dark fruit
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, minerals
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, eucalyptus, mint
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
  • Floral · violet, dried flowers, perfume, peony

Grapes: Malbec. 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
2022
91 / 100 from a critic
Lowest price
2012
£16 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.

Ultra Malbec monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£5£10£152012£16

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Ultra Malbec 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. 5 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
Ultra Malbec monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2012£1689Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2016

Where to go next

LWIN 1319617