WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 990; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 877. The average score for Château Margaux is 903, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Margaux they use words like Fruit, Tannins, Concentrated, Full, Flowers, Cassis, Long, Fine, Purple, Tannin, Sweet, Pure, Black, Elegant, Dark. The 1996 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Surreal, Toast, Hedonistic, Viscosity, Capable, Longer, Grillé, Dazzling, Nuance, Intriguing. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 12.93%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 1996 (12.5% vs 12.53%). The wine has been ready to drink for 10 years (since 2006) and should be consumed within the next 24 years (by 2040). It normally takes wines from Château Margaux around 11 years to be ready to start drinking, and 19 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Latour 2009, Château Latour 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Latour 2003; but better value alternatives would be Château Montrose 2009, Château Léoville-Poyferré 2010, Château Mouton Rothschild 2005, Château Pavie 2005, Château Angélus 2005.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very low value for money when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score. This wine is in the bottom 10% of wines by value; you might very well be paying for the name, rather than the wine.
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Prices & Deals for Château Margaux 1996
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-31 |
gbp |
350 |