WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 885; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2014 which is 866. The average score for Château Lafon-Rochet is 879, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Lafon-Rochet they use words like Cassis, Black, Oak, Purity, Full, Purple, Dense, Tannins, Acidity, Blackberry, Fruit, Impressive, Big, Ruby, Long. The 2014 shares all of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2014 but no other wine from Château Lafon-Rochet: Nutmeg, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Damsons, Weighted, Forest, Savoury. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 0%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2014 (13.5% vs 13.11%). The wine will be ready to drink in 2 years (in 2018) and should be consumed within the next 12 years (by 2028). It normally takes wines from Château Lafon-Rochet around 8 years to be ready to start drinking, and 12 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Margaux 2005, Château Montrose 2012, Château Pontet-Canet 2009, Château Lafite Rothschild 2014, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Les Ormes-de-Pez 2007, Château Les Ormes-de-Pez 2009, Château Les Ormes-de-Pez 2012, Château Gloria 2014, Château Gloria 2011.
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 Lafon-Rochet 2014
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
24 |
| 2015-11-01 |
gbp |
18 |