WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 1000; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1995 which is 912. The average score for Château d’Yquem is 941, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château d’Yquem they use words like Full, Sweet, Honey, Acidity, Botrytis, Apricot, Long, Balanced, Vanilla, Refined, Richness, Pear, Bouquet, Orange, Pineapple. The 1995 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1995 but no other wine from Château d’Yquem: Strident. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12% vs 13.2%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 1995 (12% vs 12.62%). It normally takes wines from Château d’Yquem around 11 years to be ready to start drinking, and 36 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Latour 2009, Château Cheval Blanc 2012, Château Ausone 2010, Château d’Yquem 2001, Château Margaux 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2010, Château Pontet-Canet 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Les Forts de Latour 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, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château d’Yquem 1995
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-13 |
gbp |
198 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
117 |