WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 839; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2008 which is 855. The average score for Château Lafite Rothschild is 893, 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 2008 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2008 but no other wine from Château Lafite Rothschild: Asphalt, Evolve, Profound, Rigid, Unfurling, Vanillary, Coquettish, Timid, Balances, Suppleness. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 12.58%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2008 (13.5% vs 13.02%). The wine will be ready to drink in 1 years (in 2018) and should be consumed within the next 17 years (by 2034). 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 2005, Château Mouton Rothschild 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Cheval Blanc 2009; but better value alternatives would be Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Haut-Bailly 2009, Château Mouton Rothschild 2009, Château Mouton Rothschild 2005, Château Léoville-Las Cases 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 2008
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
600 |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
604 |