WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 884; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2002 which is 877. The average score for Château Margaux is 905, making this a below 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 2002 shares some of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2002 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Stylistic, Loamy, Lustrous. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 12.93%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2002 (12.5% vs 12.79%). The wine has been ready to drink for 5 years (since 2011) and should be consumed within the next 10 years (by 2026). 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 Montrose 1996, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Latour 2003, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Batailley 2010; but better value alternatives would be Château Beychevelle 2012, Château Langoa-Barton 2008, Château Giscours 2005, Château Cantemerle 2005, Château Brane-Cantenac 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 2002
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-04-02 |
gbp |
323 |