Lokoya Howell Mountain Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- United States
- Howell Mountain
- Cabernet Sauvignon
This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 74
- Merchant offers
- 182
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 97/ 10074 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £376per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
- Drinking window
- 2013–2028drinking2011 · 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 75 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.6 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, black fruit, blueberry, plum
- Oak · oak, dark chocolate, coffee, tobacco, vanilla
- Earth · leather, earthy, minerals, graphite, pencil shavings
- Spice · pepper, licorice, menthol, rosemary, dried herbs
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, cranberry, red currant
- Floral · violet, perfume
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2012One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
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.
Every score below is a critic score.
- 2021unit not stated
- 201998unit not stated
- 201897£376 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022
- 201698£312 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- 201598£327 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019
- 201499unit not stated
- 2013100unit not stated
- 201296£246 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
- 201196
- 201094unit not stated
- 200993unit not stated
- 2008unit not stated
- 200797unit not stated
- 200497
- 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
- 2013
- 100 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2004
- peak, window 2014–2034
- Lowest price
- 2012
- £246 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £376 | 96.5 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, June 2022 |
| 2016 | £312 | 98 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022 |
| 2015 | £327 | 97.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2019 |
| 2012 | £246 | 96 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1655458