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Pahlmeyer Proprietary Red

  • Red
  • United States
  • Napa Valley
  • 赤霞珠
  • 品麗珠
  • 馬爾貝克
  • 美樂
  • 珀蒂·維多
Tracked vintages
21
Community notes
1,784
Merchant offers
83

What we know about this wine

Critics
96/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
93/ 1001,784 notes, every vintage
Market price
£111per 75 cl2006 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
Drinking window
2022–2036peak2016 · 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 232 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Bordeaux Blend.

Body4.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.8 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.4 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Oak · chocolate, oak, vanilla, tobacco, cedar
  • Black fruit · blackberry, plum, dark fruit, cassis, black cherry
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, cocoa, graphite
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, mint, eucalyptus
  • Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, banana, oil

Grapes: 赤霞珠, 品麗珠, 馬爾貝克, 美樂, 珀蒂·維多. 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.

  • 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
2016
97 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2016
peak, window 2022–2036
Lowest price
2000
£105 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.

Proprietary Red monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£50£1002006£1112000£105

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Proprietary Red 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. 4 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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Proprietary Red monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2006£11192.4Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2020
2000£10589.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2018

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