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Château Margaux 1949

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Scores

Two measures, kept apart on purpose. One is about the bottle, the other about the year.

Wine Score

96 / 100

Critic evidence
Critic: not reviewed
Community evidence
Community 96 from 5 notes

how we score

Region Vintage

95 / 100

Margaux · 1949

Thin evidence for this region and year.

Not part of the Wine Score.

Method region_vintage_v1

Drinking window

1956now 20261980
On our estimate the window closed in 1980. Estimated — no published window for this wine. Modelled from 138 comparable wines in Margaux.

Price

Merchant price range, per 750ml

£2,634

Median £2,634 · 2026-09

Our own summary of 5 tracked offers in 1500 ml, divided down to a 750ml comparable. It is not a merchant listing, and nobody will sell you a bottle at the median. The individual listings are below.

Price basis not confirmed, may or may not include UK duty and VAT.

Prices read 2026-10-15. We hold one dated snapshot of merchant prices rather than a series, so there is no retail price chart on this page. The one price history we do own is trade based: the market index.

By format

Normalised to a per-750ml comparable: large formats run 49% below bottles here, on 1 observations.
FormatLowHighPer 750mlObs.Source
1x75cl£5,175£5,175£5,1751not tracked
12x75cl × 12not trackednot trackednot tracked0not tracked
1x150cl£5,282£5,282£2,6411not tracked

Where to buy

Retail route

3 observations from 2 venues; 1 with unknown format, prices shown as listed below. A shelf price is what a merchant listed on the date shown; no bidding, no premium.

Retail asks, cheapest first, with the venue and the source behind each one.
VenuePrice
cellar.com · £2,641per 750ml · from 1500 ml
cellar.com · £5,175per 750ml
arvi.ch · £1,970as listed · unit not recorded

Auction route

No auction activity in the tracked window.

No auction activity in the tracked window.

Work out the true landed cost →

What it has fetched at auction, year by year: Château Margaux 1949 price history.

LWIN 101278119490100750, the identifier for this bottling and format.