WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 983; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1995 which is 898. The average score for Château Lafite Rothschild is 887, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Lafite Rothschild they use words like Long, Sweet, Fruit, Full, Ruby, Cassis, Black, Elegant, Tannins, Purple, Tobacco, Concentrated, Pencil, Graphite, Ripe. The 1995 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1995 but no other wine from Château Lafite Rothschild: Delineated, Weedy, Blackberries. It normally takes wines from Château Lafite Rothschild around 10 years to be ready to start drinking, and 18 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Latour 2003, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Latour 1996, Château Margaux 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Les Forts de Latour 2008, Château Palmer 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009.
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 Lafite Rothschild 1995
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-31 |
gbp |
579 |