Villa Maria Ngakirikiri Cabernet Sauvignon
- Red
- New Zealand
- Gimblett Gravels
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 5
- Community notes
- 63
- Merchant offers
- 57
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 97/ 1002020 vintage
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 10063 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £40per 75 cl2020 vintage · 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- Drinking window
- 2017–2029peak2013 · 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 6 community ratings (a small sample), read 2026-08-12. Style: New Zealand Cabernet Sauvignon.
- Body3.9 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.9 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.9 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, cassis, blackcurrant, plum, blueberry
- Oak · oak, vanilla, tobacco, coffee, cedar
- Earth · leather, smoke, pencil shavings, graphite, minerals
- Spice · pepper, dried herbs, eucalyptus, licorice, mint
- Red fruit · cherry, morello cherry, raspberry, red currant, red fruit
- Floral · violet, perfume, rose hip
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.
2013One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2020
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 critic score.
- 202097£40 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025
- 201996£49 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023
- 201895£47 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022
- 201496unit not stated
- 201392£63 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2020
- 97 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2013
- peak, window 2017–2029
- Lowest price
- 2020
- £40 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | £40 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, August 2025 |
| 2019 | £49 | 96.3 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, September 2023 |
| 2018 | £47 | 95 | — | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, May 2022 |
| 2013 | £63 | 92 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, April 2022 |
Where to go next
LWIN 1504929