WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 864; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 876. The average score for Château Les Ormes-de-Pez is 870, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Les Ormes-de-Pez they use words like Black, Fruit, Ruby, Oak, Full, Tannins, Deep, Sweet, Acidity, Purple, Dark, Spice, Ripe, Berry, Currant. The 1996 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château Les Ormes-de-Pez: Soil, Loamy, Muscular, Vigorous, Chewiness, Evolved, Neat, Crimson. The wine has been ready to drink for 9 years (since 2007) and has been past its best for 1 (since 2015). It normally takes wines from Château Les Ormes-de-Pez around 6 years to be ready to start drinking, and 8 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2014, Château Cos d’Estournel 2008, Château Pontet-Canet 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Batailley 2014, Château Langoa-Barton 2006, Château de Fonbel 2010, Château Labégorce 2010, Château Poujeaux 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very good value for money, beating 70% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Les Ormes-de-Pez 1996
Date |
Currency |
Price |
2016-01-05 |
gbp |
25 |