Yalumba The Caley Cabernet - Shiraz
- Red
- Australia
- South Australia
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Cabernet Sauvignon
- Tracked vintages
- 8
- Community notes
- 61
- Merchant offers
- 114
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 98/ 1002018 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 92/ 10061 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £179per 75 cl2018 · nearest vintage with a price · 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
- 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 11 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Australian Cabernet - Shiraz.
- Body4.6 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.2 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin3.3 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.8 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · blackberry, plum, blackcurrant, black fruit, cassis
- Oak · oak, vanilla, coffee, cedar, tobacco
- Spice · pepper, mint, licorice, eucalyptus, cinnamon
- Earth · leather, smoke, graphite, balsamic, cocoa
- Red fruit · cherry, red currant, morello cherry, red cherry, red fruit
- Ageing (non-oak) · toast
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah, 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.
2012One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2018
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.
- 2021unit not stated
- 2019unit not stated
- 201898£179 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023
- 201697unit not stated
- 201597£160 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 201496£167 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020
- 201397£133 / 75cl3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026
- 201297£229 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2018
- 98 / 100 from a critic
- Lowest price
- 2013
- £133 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | £179 | 97.9 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, July 2023 |
| 2015 | £160 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2014 | £167 | 95.8 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, October 2020 |
| 2013 | £133 | 97 | — | per 75cl, from a 3-bottle in-bond trade, February 2026 |
| 2012 | £229 | 97.2 | — | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, August 2022 |
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