Quintessa
- Red
- United States
- Rutherford
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Cabernet Franc
- Malbec
- Merlot
- Petit Verdot
- Tracked vintages
- 14
- Community notes
- 284
- Merchant offers
- 201
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- UnknownNobody has published a critic score for a vintage we track
- Real drinkers
- 94/ 100284 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- UnknownNothing a merchant has quoted in a unit and a currency we can print
- Drinking window
- UnknownNot recorded on any vintage we track
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 573 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Bordeaux Blend.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.8 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.6 / 5
- DrySweet
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, cedar
- Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, plum, black fruit, blueberry
- Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, cocoa
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red currant
- Spice · licorice, pepper, cinnamon, savory, mint
- Floral · violet, lavender, perfume, lilac, potpourri
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot. 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.
Every score below is a community score.
- 202291unit not stated
- 202191unit not stated
- 202096unit not stated
- 201991unit not stated
- 201893unit not stated
- 201794unit not stated
- 201692unit not stated
- 201596unit not stated
- 201493unit not stated
- 201295unit not stated
- 201194unit not stated
- 1996100unit not stated
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 1996
- 100 / 100 from drinkers