WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 819; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2011 which is 854. The average score for Château Latour is 925, 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 2011 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2011 but no other wine from Château Latour: Cloaked, Satin, Strictness, Tension, Introspective, Subtly, Edginess, Blueberries, Steely, Filling. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 12.94%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2011 (13.5% vs 13.13%). The wine will be ready to drink in 4 years (in 2021) and should be consumed within the next 23 years (by 2040). 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 Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Margaux 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2006, Château Haut-Brion 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Haut-Bailly 2009, Château Pontet-Canet 2008, Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2005.
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 2011
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
283 |
| 2015-07-02 |
gbp |
367 |