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Château Potensac

  • Red
  • Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Merlot
  • Cabernet Franc
  • Petit Verdot
Tracked vintages
47
Community notes
1,339
Merchant offers
127

What we know about this wine

Critics
92/ 1002025 vintage
Real drinkers
88/ 1001,339 notes, every vintage
Market price
£14per 75 cl2023 · nearest vintage with a price · 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
Drinking window
2027–2040hold2023 · nearest vintage with a window

Flavour and structure

An estimate of how this wine is usually built and what it usually tastes of, from its name and producer. No drinker or critic data sits behind it yet; it is replaced the moment real profiles arrive.

Estimated. Estimated by our model from the wine's name and producer. No tasting data behind it yet. Style: Médoc red.

Body4.0 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.0 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin4.0 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.0 / 5
DrySweet
  • Earth · earthy, graphite
  • Oak · cedar
  • Black fruit · cassis, dark fruit

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot. Proportions are not recorded.

Descriptors are drawn from a closed list of standard tasting words, most of them measured from what drinkers say about real wines; here they are a model's estimate, not counts of anything. Tannin is shown only for red wines.

Realised in-bond trades£14–£43GBP per 75 cl · 18 priced vintages

1989One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2023

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
  • Holdits window has not opened
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2022
93 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2022
drinking, window 2025–2045
Lowest price
1999
£14 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.

Potensac monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£10£20£30£402023£142019£182018£192015£222014£152010£202009£262008£342006£272005£332003£222002£232001£242000£431999£141996£281990£291989£30

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

Potensac 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. 1 vintage is priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for it
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Potensac monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2023£1491.4Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2024
2019£1892.2Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
2018£1991Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2019
2015£2290.5Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2019
2014£1589.5Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
2010£2089.6Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017
2009£2690.6Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018
2008£3488.3Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2018
2006£2787.7Noper 75cl, from a 6-1500 ml in-bond trade, October 2020
2005£3391.3Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, May 2023
2003£2290.3Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
2002£2387.2Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, January 2018
2001£2487.8Yesper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, February 2022
2000£4389Yesper 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
1999£1486Noper 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, June 2016
1996£2889.8Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, February 2017
1990£2986Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2016
1989£3087Noper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, September 2016

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