Pio Cesare
- Red
- Italy
- Barbaresco
- Nebbiolo
- Tracked vintages
- 49
- Community notes
- 639
- Merchant offers
- 173
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 92/ 1002019 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 87/ 100639 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £41per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- Drinking window
- 2018–2028drinking2014 · 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 269 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barbaresco.
- Body3.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity4.7 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, chocolate, coffee
- Earth · leather, earthy, tar, mushroom, smoke
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, dried herbs
- Black fruit · plum, blackberry, black cherry, dark fruit, black fruit
- Floral · violet, rose petal, dried rose, potpourri, dried flowers
Grapes: Nebbiolo. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
1955One 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.
- 2022unit not stated
- 202185drinkersunit not stated
- 202086drinkersunit not stated
- 201992criticunit not stated
- 201885drinkers£41 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201786drinkers£38 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201695critic£78 / 75cl6-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201592critic£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
- 201491critic£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018
- 201392critic£124 / 75clsingle-bottle shop ask, September 2026
- 201282drinkersunit not stated
- 201186drinkersunit not stated
- 201091criticunit not stated
- 200990critic£46 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024
- 200891critic
- 200688drinkers
- 200590drinkersunit not stated
- 200492critic£46 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
- 200390drinkers
- 200190drinkers
- 200092drinkers
- 199989critic
- 199889criticunit not stated
- 199793drinkers
- 199692drinkers
- 199588drinkersunit not stated
- 199088drinkers
- 198990drinkersunit not stated
- 198885drinkers
- 1986£42 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 198581drinkers£49 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 1984£46 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
- 1983£60 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
- 198291drinkers
- 1979£45 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016
- 197894drinkers
- 197484drinkers£53 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
- 1973unit not stated
- 197193drinkers
- 197091drinkers
- 196991drinkers
- 1968£59 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, May 2016
- 196786drinkers
- 196490drinkers£62 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
- 196291drinkersunit not stated
- 196190drinkers£54 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017
- 1958£42 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015
- 195794drinkersunit not stated
- 1955£63 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018
- 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
- 95 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2014
- drinking, window 2018–2028
- Lowest price
- 2017
- £38 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 tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £41 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2017 | £38 | — | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2016 | £78 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2015 | £40 | 91.7 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024 |
| 2014 | £40 | 91.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2018 |
| 2013 | £124 | 92.3 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026 |
| 2009 | £46 | 89.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2024 |
| 2004 | £46 | 92.3 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016 |
| 1986 | £42 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 1985 | £49 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 1984 | £46 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016 |
| 1983 | £60 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020 |
| 1979 | £45 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016 |
| 1974 | £53 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018 |
| 1968 | £59 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2016 |
| 1964 | £62 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017 |
| 1961 | £54 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017 |
| 1958 | £42 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2015 |
| 1955 | £63 | — | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2018 |
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