WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 908; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2002 which is 874. The average score for Château Latour is 923, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Latour they use words like Fruit, Black, Full, Long, Tannins, Sweet, Tannin, Purple, Dark, Dense, Rich, Cassis, Deep, Ripe, Richness. The 2002 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2002 but no other wine from Château Latour: Litheness, Differentiates, Fist, Watering. The wine has approximately standard levels of alcohol for the producer (13% vs 12.96%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2002 (13% vs 12.79%). It normally takes wines from Château Latour around 12 years to be ready to start drinking, and 20 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Margaux 2010, Château Margaux 2009, Château Mouton Rothschild 2006, Château Haut-Brion 2009, Château Lafite Rothschild 2002; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Margaux 2006, Château Mouton Rothschild 2011, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, 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 Latour 2002
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-08-18 |
gbp |
433 |