WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 861; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 883. The average score for Château Angélus is 910, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Angélus they use words like Full, Purple, Fruit, Black, Rich, Ripe, Tannin, Concentrated, Dark, Chocolate, Sweet, Bouquet, Blueberry, Powerful, Cassis. The 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Angélus: Phenomenal, Earth, Sexiness, Opulence, Cacao, Iron, Tea, Alluring, Characteristic, Abundant. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (15.5% vs 0%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2010 (15.5% vs 13.47%). It normally takes wines from Château Angélus around 6 years to be ready to start drinking, and 16 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2009, Château Margaux 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008; but better value alternatives would be Château Pavie 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2008, Château Angélus 2009, Château Clos Fourtet 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Angélus 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-05-29 |
gbp |
280 |