Vilafonté Seriously Old Dirt
- Red
- South Africa
- Paarl
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Cabernet Franc
- Malbec
- Merlot
- Petit Verdot
- Carménère
- Tracked vintages
- 5
- Community notes
- 216
- Merchant offers
- 45
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 93/ 1002022 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 84/ 100216 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £23per 75 cl2021 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
- 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 668 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: South African Bordeaux Blend.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.2 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.9 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, cassis, dark fruit, blackberry, blackcurrant
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, chocolate, nutmeg
- Earth · earthy, leather, smoke, balsamic, mushroom
- Red fruit · cherry, raspberry, red fruit, strawberry, red cherry
- Spice · pepper, licorice, cinnamon, savory, anise
- Dried fruit · prune, fruitcake, raisin, fig, dried fruit
Grapes: Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Merlot, Petit Verdot, Carménère. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2019One 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.
- 202386drinkersunit not stated
- 202293criticunit not stated
- 202193critic£23 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, February 2024
- 202091critic£18 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2023
- 201991critic£26 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, November 2024
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2022
- 93 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2020
- £18 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
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