WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 880; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1998 which is 874. The average score for Château L’Eglise-Clinet is 892, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château L’Eglise-Clinet they use words like Full, Fruit, Purple, Sweet, Pomerol, Traditional, Ripe, Black, Oak, Rich, Cherry, Tannins, Dark, Fruits, Long. The 1998 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1998 but no other wine from Château L’Eglise-Clinet: Honey, Comfortable, Bursting, Garde, Grainy, Precocious, Engaging, Youth, Primal, Vivacious. The wine has been ready to drink for 11 years (since 2005) and should be consumed within the next 2 years (by 2018). It normally takes wines from Château L’Eglise-Clinet around 7 years to be ready to start drinking, and 16 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Ausone 2010, Château Latour 2009, Château Haut-Brion 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2010, 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 L’Eglise-Clinet 1998
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
275 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
242 |