WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 872; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2009 which is 871. 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 2009 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2009 but no other wine from Château Lafite Rothschild: Supremely, Iconic. 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 Latour 2009, Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château d’Issan 2005, Château Palmer 2012, Château Lynch-Bages 2011.
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 2009
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-09 |
gbp |
875 |