WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 938; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1989 which is 921. The average score for Château Léoville-Barton is 875, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Léoville-Barton they use words like Fruit, Full, Tannins, Cassis, Purple, Rich, Black, Long, Classic, Dark, Tannin, Concentrated, Firm, Ripe, Cedar. The 1989 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1989 but no other wine from Château Léoville-Barton: Cherries, Tea, Rustic. The wine has roughly a similar level of alcohol for the producer (12.5% vs 12.63%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 1989 (12.5% vs 12.92%). The wine has been ready to drink for 23 years (since 1993) and has been past its best for 1 (since 2015). It normally takes wines from Château Léoville-Barton around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 16 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Margaux 2008, Château Latour 1996, Château Mouton Rothschild 2003, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Gloria 2010, Château Gloria 2010, Château Lynch-Bages 2005.
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 Léoville-Barton 1989
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
85 |
| 2015-08-18 |
gbp |
135 |