Quintessa
- Tracked vintages
- 27
- Community notes
- 807
- Merchant offers
- 45
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002022 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 92/ 100807 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £124per 75 cl2022 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
- Drinking window
- 2025–2048drinking2022 vintage
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.
- Body5.0 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.0 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.0 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.0 / 5
- DrySweet
- Earth · graphite, tobacco leaf
- Oak · cedar, dark chocolate
- Black fruit · blackberry, cassis
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.
2012One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2022
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.
- 202296critic£124 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026
- 202198critic£100 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026
- 202095critic£125 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201997critic
- 201896critic£100 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025
- 201795critic£116 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020
- 201697critic£99 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
- 201596critic£136 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201495critic£125 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
- 201294critic£130 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023
- 201188critic
- 201093critic
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- 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
- 2021
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2021
- drinking, window 2024–2045
- Lowest price
- 2016
- £99 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 trade
View as a table
| Vintage | Price / 75cl | Critic score | In drink window | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | £124 | 96 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2026 |
| 2021 | £100 | 97.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2026 |
| 2020 | £125 | 94.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2018 | £100 | 96.2 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2025 |
| 2017 | £116 | 95 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2020 |
| 2016 | £99 | 96.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025 |
| 2015 | £136 | 95.8 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2014 | £125 | 95.3 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025 |
| 2012 | £130 | 94.2 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, March 2023 |
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