WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 886; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2005 which is 881. The average score for Château Léoville-Barton is 876, 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 2005 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2005 but no other wine from Château Léoville-Barton: Affable, Brutally, Persistence, Linear, Gentle, Dimensional, Wait, Sexy, Berries, Spine. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13% vs 12.62%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 2005 (13% vs 13.1%). The wine will be ready to drink in 4 years (in 2020) and should be consumed within the next 49 years (by 2065). 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 Pontet-Canet 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Mouton Rothschild 2005, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Margaux 2006; but better value alternatives would be Château Haut-Brion 2008, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Lynch-Bages 2011, Château Figeac 2012.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers average value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Léoville-Barton 2005
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-26 |
gbp |
60 |
| 2015-12-08 |
gbp |
108 |