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Spottswoode Cabernet Sauvignon

  • Red
  • United States
  • St. Helena
  • Cabernet Sauvignon

This record is a provisional match and may describe a different bottling.

Tracked vintages
33
Community notes
1,085
Merchant offers
151

What we know about this wine

Critics
98/ 1002021 · nearest vintage with a critic score
Real drinkers
91/ 1001,085 notes, every vintage
Market price
£184per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
Drinking window
2019–2031peak2005 · 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 510 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon.

Body4.6 / 5
LightFull
Acidity3.4 / 5
SoftCrisp
Tannin3.4 / 5
SmoothGrippy
Sweetness1.7 / 5
DrySweet
  • Black fruit · blackberry, dark fruit, cassis, blackcurrant, plum
  • Oak · oak, chocolate, vanilla, tobacco, cedar
  • Earth · leather, earthy, smoke, graphite, minerals
  • Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, strawberry
  • Spice · licorice, pepper, mint, cinnamon, menthol
  • Floral · violet, lavender, lilac, perfume, acacia

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£109–£229GBP per 75 cl · 10 priced vintages

1985One 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
  • Past its windowits window has closed
  • Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
Best scored
2018
100 / 100 from a critic
Drinking now
2001
peak, window 2008–2038
Lowest price
2017
£109 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.

Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl£0£100£2002021£1842018£1152017£1092016£1842015£1452012£2072010£2292001£1281986£1091985£109

Solid: a realised in-bond trade

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. 6 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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Cabernet Sauvignon monthly median by vintage, per 75cl
VintagePrice / 75clCritic scoreIn drink windowBasis
2021£18498.2—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2024
2018£11599.8—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, June 2026
2017£10996—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, July 2026
2016£18499—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, October 2021
2015£14598—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2025
2012£20798—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
2010£22998—per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2020
2001£12896Yesper 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, March 2016
1986£10990Noper 75cl, from a 2-1500 ml in-bond trade, August 2020
1985£10989Noper 75cl, from a 2-1500 ml in-bond trade, August 2020

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