WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 894; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2004 which is 844. 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 2004 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2004 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Tender, Refinement, Appealing. The wine has approximately standard levels of alcohol for the producer (13% vs 12.92%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 2004 (13% vs 12.86%). 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 Latour 2003, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Lafite Rothschild 2008, Château Mouton Rothschild 2006, Château Mouton Rothschild 2008; but better value alternatives would be Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2009, Château Pontet-Canet 2008.
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 2004
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-06-11 |
gbp |
313 |