Scarecrow Cabernet Sauvignon

Red
United States
Rutherford
Cabernet Sauvignon

Tracked vintages: 20
Community notes: 467
Merchant offers: 539

What we know about this wine

Critics: 99/ 1002023 vintage
Real drinkers: 96/ 100467 notes, every vintage
Market price: £875per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 1500 ml shop ask, October 2026
Drinking window: 2026–2045drinking2022 · 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 374 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.7 / 5: LightFull
Acidity3.3 / 5: SoftCrisp
Tannin3.4 / 5: SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.8 / 5: DrySweet

Oak · oak, tobacco, chocolate, vanilla, cedar
Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, dark fruit, plum, black cherry
Earth · earthy, leather, smoke, graphite, minerals
Spice · licorice, cinnamon, pepper, mint, eucalyptus
Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, red plum, strawberry
Yeast and lees · cream, cheese, oil

Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon. 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£557–£1,270Shop asks£793–£875GBP per 75 cl · 15 priced vintages

2004One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2021

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: 2019; 100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now: 2019; drinking, window 2022–2054
Lowest price: 2016; £557 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

Cabernet Sauvignon 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. 5 vintages are priced in a case size the merchant did not state, so no per-bottle figure is drawn for them

View as a table

Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
Vintage	Price / 75cl	Critic score	In drink window	Basis
2021	£875	98.8	Yes	per 75cl, from a 1500 ml shop ask, October 2026
2019	£817	99.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2018	£627	98.3	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2017	£650	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, April 2024
2016	£557	99	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2015	£670	97.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2025
2014	£591	98.7	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2025
2013	£780	98.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2012	£793	97	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2010	£654	96.5	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2008	£818	93	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2007	£1,270	98.6	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2026
2006	£851	95	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle shop ask, September 2026
2005	£863	98	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, November 2025
2004	£787	94	Yes	per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, March 2021

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