WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 944; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2005 which is 875. The average score for Château Le Pin is 896, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Le Pin they use words like Full, Bouquet, Sweet, Ripe, Deep, Oak, Fruit, Redcurrant, Attractive, Subtle, Young, Tannins, Floral, Meat, Linear. The 2005 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2005 but no other wine from Château Le Pin: Honeyed, Glycerine, Lascivious, Heather, Expansiveness, Unknit, Sourness, Precocious, Lush, Strawberry. The wine has been ready to drink for 5 years (since 2011) and should be consumed within the next 9 years (by 2025). It normally takes wines from Château Le Pin around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 13 further years to decline.
Better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2012, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010.
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 Le Pin 2005
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
1750 |