WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 819; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2010 which is 861. The average score for Château Léoville-Poyferré is 883, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Léoville-Poyferré they use words like Tannins, Fruit, Black, Structure, Purple, Sweet, Ripe, Cassis, Full, Long, Tannin, Rich, Deep, Fleshy, Cherry. The 2010 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2010 but no other wine from Château Léoville-Poyferré: Shimmering, Enriched, Introverted, Immaculate, Dried, Nuts, Wow, Sensual, Spellbinding, Minerality. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (14.5% vs 12.9%); it has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this region in 2010 (14.5% 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-Poyferré around 9 years to be ready to start drinking, and 14 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Mouton Rothschild 2010, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2009, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Latour 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010.
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-Poyferré 2010
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-16 |
gbp |
112 |
| 2016-01-13 |
gbp |
148 |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
70 |