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Maison M.Chapoutier Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers

Tracked vintages
31
Community notes
435
Merchant offers
84

What we know about this wine

Critics
92/ 1002024 vintage
Real drinkers
87/ 100435 notes, every vintage
Market price
£34per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
Drinking window
2020–2034peak2016 · 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 24 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Northern Rhône Crozes-Hermitage.

Body3.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.2 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.3 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Black fruit · black fruit, black cherry, blackcurrant, blackberry, blueberry
  • Earth · leather, earthy, minerals, smoke, graphite
  • Spice · pepper, licorice, savory, white pepper, anise
  • Oak · tobacco, oak, coffee, clove, cedar
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, cranberry
  • Floral · violet, dried flowers, lavender, peony, perfume

Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.

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

Realised in-bond trades£24–£54GBP per 75 cl · 9 priced vintages

1996One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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.

  • Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
  • Drinkinginside 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
2019
97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2020–2034
Lowest price
2006
£24 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.

Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£20£402021£342019£352018£422017£342015£282013£392006£242004£281996£54

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers 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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Crozes-Ermitage Les Varonniers monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2021£34——per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2022
2019£3596.5—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2025
2018£4295—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
2017£3494—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2015£2893—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2025
2013£3992.2—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2018
2006£2492—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2020
2004£2890.5—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2016
1996£5491.5—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2018

Where to go next

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