WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 882; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2008 which is 857. The average score for Château Langoa-Barton is 876, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Langoa-Barton they use words like Fruit, Tannins, Full, Classic, Depth, Rich, Dense, Cassis, Oak, Structure, Ripe, Dark, Fine, Long, Purple. The 2008 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2008 but no other wine from Château Langoa-Barton: Foxglove, Oily, Toasty, Liquorice, Thick, Macerated, Extrovert, Prune, Decades, Beautiful. It normally takes wines from Château Langoa-Barton around 8 years to be ready to start drinking, and 12 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012; but better value alternatives would be Château Labégorce 2010, Château Batailley 2014, Château Batailley 2008.
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 Langoa-Barton 2008
Date |
Currency |
Price |
2016-01-05 |
gbp |
23 |