WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 809; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2013 which is 851. The average score for Château Calon-Ségur is 910, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Calon-Ségur they use words like Tannins, Full, Black, Long, Fruit, Tannin, Purple, Classic, Ruby, Sweet, Fine, Purity, Ripe, Tannic, Cassis. The 2013 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2013 but no other wine from Château Calon-Ségur: Generous. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 13.08%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2013 (12.5% vs 12.69%). It normally takes wines from Château Calon-Ségur around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 17 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Brane-Cantenac 2010, Château Lynch-Bages 2007, Château Palmer 2008, Château Léoville-Las Cases 2009; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Haut-Batailley 2014, Château Lagrange (St Julien) 2007, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2014.
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 Calon-Ségur 2013
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-08-09 |
gbp |
33 |