- Y d’Yquem has been released at £1,440 per 12×75.
- The wine received a score of 94+ points from Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW.
- At this price, the 2022 is one of the cheapest vintages of Y on the market.
Y d’Yquem 2022 has been released at £1,440 per 12×75, flat on the 2021’s opening price (more pricing analysis below).
Since Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW is the only major critic to have yet scored the wine, her scores are shown in the above bar chart.
Critical response
Lisa Perrotti-Brown MW (The Wine Independent) awarded the wine a score of 94+ points. According to her, the wine skips out of the glass with cheery notions of fresh, crunchy pears, allspice, fennel seed and lime leaves’.
Pricing analysis
The 2022’s release price makes it one of the cheapest vintages on the market. It is 12.7% below the current Market Price of the similarly-rated 2020 vintage (£1,650 per 12×75). However, the 2020 was most recently traded at £1,286, 12.0% below the 2022’s release price.
The 2021, awarded 95-points by Lisa Perrotti Brown MW, has a current Market Price of £1415, and most recently traded at £1,210 per 12×75.
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