Château Margaux 1999
WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 953; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1999 which is 868. The average score for Château Margaux is 904, 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 1999 shares some of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1999 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Heavyweight, Austere, Underrated. 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 1999 (12.5% vs 12.64%). 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 Mouton Rothschild 2009, Château Latour 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Lafite Rothschild 2001; but better value alternatives would be Château Léoville-Poyferré 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2012, Château Haut-Batailley 2014, Château Brane-Cantenac 2010, 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.
Similar Wines from Nearby
| Similarity Score | Wine | Price Difference |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Château Brane-Cantenac 2010 | -79% |
| 29 | Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005 | -69% |
| 28 | Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005 | -69% |
| 28 | Château d’Issan 2010 | -84% |
| 28 | Château Brane-Cantenac 2005 | -81% |
| 27 | Château d’Issan 2009 | -83% |
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