WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 837; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2009 which is 847. The average score for Château Beychevelle is 873, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Beychevelle they use words like Fruit, Black, Elegant, Tannins, Acidity, Attractive, Ripe, Tannin, Oak, Ruby, Sweet, Deep, Full, Balanced, Dark. The 2009 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2009 but no other wine from Château Beychevelle: Glycerin, Extravagant, Savory, Broad, Wood, Opaque, Turbo, Charged, Blackcurrants, Complexity. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 13.1%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 2009 (13.5% vs 13.34%). It normally takes wines from Château Beychevelle around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 10 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Château Brane-Cantenac 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2007, Château Pontet-Canet 2011, Château Malescot St Exupéry 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Beychevelle 2009
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-06-28 |
gbp |
52 |