La Jota Cabernet Franc
- Red
- United States
- Howell Mountain
- 品麗珠
- Tracked vintages
- 24
- Community notes
- 200
- Merchant offers
- 91
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 95/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 90/ 100200 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £92per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
- Drinking window
- 2017–2038peak2014 · 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 10 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Californian Cabernet Franc.
- Body3.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.1 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.7 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blueberry, blackberry, dark fruit, plum, black cherry
- Oak · oak, vanilla, cedar, tobacco, coffee
- Earth · earthy, leather, smoke, cocoa, truffle
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, cherry cola
- Spice · pepper, anise, licorice, juniper, mint
- Ageing (non-oak) · chestnut, toast, walnut
Grapes: 品麗珠. 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.
- 2021unit not stated
- 201987drinkersunit not stated
- 201895critic£92 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
- 201795critic£83 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2021
- 201494critic
- 201186drinkersunit not stated
- 201090critic
- 200389drinkers
- 200295drinkers
- 200191drinkers
- 200089drinkers
- 199988drinkers
- 199893drinkers
- 199790drinkers
- 199693drinkers
- 199594drinkers
- 199493drinkers
- 199394drinkers
- 199290drinkers
- 199191drinkers
- 199089drinkers
- 198886drinkers
- 198690drinkers
- Peakinside the middle half of 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
- 2018
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2014
- peak, window 2017–2038
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £83 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
Where to go next
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