WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 938; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 877. The average score for Château Le Gay is 868, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Le Gay they use words like Dark, Pomerol, Fruit, Black, Full, Sweet, Ruby, Tannins, Long, Dense, Ripe, Purple, Oak, Blackberry, Purity. The 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Le Gay: Seville, Alive, Fleeting, Unfurling, Delicious, Dancing, Tension, Legendary, Edgy, Taut. The wine will be ready to drink in 1 years (in 2017) and should be consumed within the next 12 years (by 2028). It normally takes wines from Château Le Gay around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 15 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Palmer 2012, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010, Château Ausone 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château d’Issan 2009, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2010.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers below average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score, 70% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château Le Gay 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
112 |