WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 940; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2005 which is 875. The average score for Château L’Eglise-Clinet is 890, making this an above 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 2005 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2005 but no other wine from Château L’Eglise-Clinet: Oil, Gassy, Sugar, Ultrafine, Solid, Creosote, Roast, Espresso, Phenomenal, Exhilarating. The wine will be ready to drink in 1 years (in 2017) and should be consumed within the next 24 years (by 2040). 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 Haut-Brion 2009, Château Ausone 2010, Château Haut-Brion 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Palmer 2012, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2012, Les Forts de Latour 2009, 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 L’Eglise-Clinet 2005
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
342 |