WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 890; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2009 which is 867. The average score for Château Clos Fourtet is 881, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Clos Fourtet they use words like Fruit, Full, Blackberry, Dark, Rich, Ripe, Tannins, Black, Acidity, Plum, Chocolate, Blueberry, Purple, Long, Raspberry. The 2009 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2009 but no other wine from Château Clos Fourtet: Superstar, Saline, Evolve, Exquisite, Eclipsing, Magical, Density, Hedonistic, Mulberry, Decadent. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14.5% vs 0%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2009 (14.5% vs 13.34%). The wine has been ready to drink for 3 years (since 2015) and should be consumed within the next 12 years (by 2030). It normally takes wines from Château Clos Fourtet around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 17 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Latour 2009, Château La Conseillante 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Giscours 2005, Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Château Cos d’Estournel 2010, Château Pavie Macquin 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009.
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, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château Clos Fourtet 2009
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
158 |
| 2015-07-12 |
gbp |
150 |