WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 900; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 898. The average score for Château Haut-Brion is 943, 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 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Haut-Brion: Dramatic, Kudos, Focused, Sublime, Leafiness, Sensual, Sea, Unfurls, Vivacious, Ebullient. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (15% vs 13.22%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2010 (15% vs 13.47%). The wine will be ready to drink in 8 years (in 2025) and should be consumed within the next 23 years (by 2040). 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 2005, Château Latour 2009, Château Latour 2009, Château Mouton Rothschild 2010, Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2009, Château Haut-Bailly 2009, Château Pontet-Canet 2008, Château Pavie 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.
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Prices & Deals for Château Haut-Brion 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
462 |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
762 |
| 2016-01-04 |
gbp |
750 |