Château Margaux 1998
WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 919; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1998 which is 875. The average score for Château Margaux is 905, 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 1998 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1998 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Robust, Green, Peppers, Blackfruit. 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 1998 (12.5% vs 12.66%). The wine has been ready to drink for 12 years (since 2004) and should be consumed within the next 6 years (by 2022). 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 Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Batailley 2010, Château Latour 2005, Château Latour 2003; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009.
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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