WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 860; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2001 which is 876. The average score for Château Lafite Rothschild is 891, making this a below 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 2001 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2001 but no other wine from Château Lafite Rothschild: Accessible, Evolutionary, Saturated, Worthy, Aging, Lusciousness. The wine has been ready to drink for 5 years (since 2012) and should be consumed within the next 23 years (by 2040). 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 2009, Château Latour 2003, Château Haut-Brion 2010, Château Margaux 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2008, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010.
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 2001
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-26 |
gbp |
458 |