WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 920; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2006 which is 901. The average score for Château Haut-Brion is 942, making this a below 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 2006 shares some of these characteristics. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14.5% vs 13.33%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2006 (14.5% vs 13.01%). 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 Margaux 2005, Château Latour 2003, Château Margaux 2010, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2004; but better value alternatives would be Château Potensac 2005, Château Labégorce 2011, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2007, Château Cantemerle 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. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
Similar Wines from Nearby
Similar Wines from Other Regions
Prices & Deals for Château Haut-Brion 2006
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-04 |
gbp |
295 |