WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 920; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 868. The average score for Château La Pointe is 878, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château La Pointe they use words like Tannins, Light, Full, Attractive, Chocolate, Blackberry, Dark, Balance. The 1996 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château La Pointe: Enjoyable, Big, Fine, Vanilla, Complex, Subtle. The wine has been ready to drink for 16 years (since 2000) and has been past its best for 9 (since 2007). It normally takes wines from Château La Pointe around 4 years to be ready to start drinking, and 9 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008; but better value alternatives would be Château Cantemerle 2011, Château Haut-Brion 2012, Château Canon 2007.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very high value for money, beating 80% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château La Pointe 1996
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
20 |