WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 1000; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1985 which is 899. The average score for Château Haut-Brion is 938, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Haut-Brion they use words like Fruit, Sweet, Full, Black, Tannins, Tannin, Deep, Complex, Richness, Long, Fruits, Pure, Ripe, Rich, Ruby. The 1985 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1985 but no other wine from Château Haut-Brion: Edges. The wine has been ready to drink for 20 years (since 1997) and has been past its best for 5 (since 2012). It normally takes wines from Château Haut-Brion around 10 years to be ready to start drinking, and 21 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Latour 2003, Château Mouton Rothschild 2006, Château Mouton Rothschild 2008; but better value alternatives would be Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Palmer 2012, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008.
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 Haut-Brion 1985
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-31 |
gbp |
317 |