Yann Chave
- Red
- France
- Hermitage
- Shiraz/Syrah
- Tracked vintages
- 21
- Community notes
- 276
- Merchant offers
- 97
What we know about this wine
- Critics
- 96/ 1002020 · nearest vintage with a critic score
- Real drinkers
- 88/ 100276 notes, every vintage
- Market price
- £71per 75 cl2019 · nearest vintage with a price · 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
- Drinking window
- 2028–2044hold2020 · 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 16 community ratings, read 2026-08-12. Style: Northern Rhône Hermitage.
- Body4.7 / 5
- LightFull
- Acidity3.5 / 5
- SoftCrisp
- Tannin4.1 / 5
- SmoothGrippy
- Sweetness1.5 / 5
- DrySweet
- Black fruit · plum, blackcurrant, black cherry, blackberry, blueberry
- Earth · leather, minerals, earthy, smoke, cocoa
- Oak · oak, vanilla, clove, cedar, coffee
- Spice · pepper, licorice, white pepper, anise, rosemary
- Red fruit · cherry, red fruit, raspberry, red cherry, red currant
- Floral · violet
Grapes: Shiraz/Syrah. Proportions are not recorded.
Descriptors are the words drinkers used most, grouped; counts are mentions. Tannin is shown only where it was measured.
2005One point per priced vintage. Years with no price we can stand behind are not drawn.2019
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.
- 2024unit not stated
- 2023unit not stated
- 202280drinkersunit not stated
- 2021100drinkersunit not stated
- 202096criticunit not stated
- 201996critic£71 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024
- 201896critic£54 / 75cl6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021
- 201794criticunit not stated
- 201685drinkersunit not stated
- 201594criticunit not stated
- 201284drinkersunit not stated
- 201185drinkersunit not stated
- 201090drinkersunit not stated
- 200993critic£38 / 75cl12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017
- 200788drinkers
- 200690drinkers
- 200593critic£38 / 75clsingle-bottle in-bond trade, July 2015
- 200492drinkers
- 200393drinkers
- 200292drinkers
- 200190drinkersunit not stated
- Peakinside the middle half of its stated window
- Drinkinginside its stated window
- Holdits window has not opened
- Past its windowits window has closed
- Window not recordedthe vintage carries no window, so the meter shows its score alone
- Best scored
- 2020
- 96 / 100 from a critic
- Drinking now
- 2018
- drinking, window 2024–2045
- Lowest price
- 2009
- £38 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | £71 | 95.5 | No | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, January 2024 |
| 2018 | £54 | 95.5 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 6-bottle in-bond trade, December 2021 |
| 2009 | £38 | 92.7 | Yes | per 75cl, from a 12-bottle in-bond trade, December 2017 |
| 2005 | £38 | 92.5 | No | per 75cl, from a single-bottle in-bond trade, July 2015 |
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