WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 835; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 860. The average score for Château Léoville-Barton is 878, making this a below 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 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Léoville-Barton: Superstar, Cask, Ink. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13% vs 12.62%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2010 (13% vs 13.47%). The wine will be ready to drink in 1 years (in 2017) and should be consumed within the next 19 years (by 2035). 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, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Mouton Rothschild 2006, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Branaire-Ducru 2010, Château Gloria 2010, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Cos d’Estournel 2008, Château Lynch-Bages 2011.
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 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
87 |