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Pio Cesare

  • Red
  • Italy
  • Barolo
  • Nebbiolo
Tracked vintages
56
Community notes
1,633
Merchant offers
212

What we know about this wine

Critics
93/ 1002022 vintage
Real drinkers
90/ 1001,633 notes, every vintage
Market price
£83per 75 cl2020 · nearest vintage with a price · single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
Drinking window
2020–2038peak2015 · 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 1,269 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Italian Barolo.

Body3.8 / 5
LightFull
Acidity4.6 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.3 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.5 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · leather, earthy, tar, smoke, mushroom
  • Oak · oak, tobacco, vanilla, cedar, chocolate
  • Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
  • Black fruit · plum, blackberry, dark fruit, black cherry, black fruit
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, savory
  • Floral · violet, dried rose, rose petal, perfume, lavender

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.

Realised in-bond trades£35–£210Shop asks£53–£83GBP per 75 cl · 34 priced vintages

1953One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020

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
2017
94 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2015
peak, window 2020–2038
Lowest price
2004
£35 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.

Pio Cesare monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£100£2002020£832019£372018£532016£432015£522014£552013£402012£562010£682006£682004£352002£351999£351998£461997£631996£571995£491986£591985£1391983£1251982£621981£391979£551974£701970£911968£451967£881964£831961£701959£731958£701957£2101955£731953£90

Solid: a realised in-bond tradeHatched: what a merchant is asking, which nobody has paid

Pio Cesare 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. 9 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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Pio Cesare monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2020£8393.5—per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2019£3793.9—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2018£53——per 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2016£4393.1—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2015£5293.7Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2025
2014£5592.3—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2013£4093.8—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
2012£5693.2—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2019
2010£6893Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2006£6892.3Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2004£3592.5Noper 75cl, from a 1500 ml in-bond trade, November 2016
2002£35——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016
1999£3590.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, April 2016
1998£4689.6Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
1997£6390.8—per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, March 2022
1996£5790.4Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
1995£4989.5Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, January 2016
1986£59——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2016
1985£13989Noper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2023
1983£125——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2019
1982£6291—per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2018
1981£39——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2016
1979£55——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2019
1974£70——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
1970£91——per 75cl, from a 12-720 ml in-bond trade, January 2024
1968£45——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2016
1967£88——per 75cl, from a 6-720 ml in-bond trade, February 2024
1964£8393—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2025
1961£70——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, October 2017
1959£73——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
1958£70——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2017
1957£210——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, May 2021
1955£73——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, November 2017
1953£90——per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2019

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