WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 869; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2005 which is 865. 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 2005 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2005 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Stunner, Saddle, Lavish, Persistence, Crystalline, Sensual, Effortless, Mushrooms, Longest, Steel. 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 2005 (13% vs 13.1%). The wine has been ready to drink for 1 years (since 2015) and should be consumed within the next 34 years (by 2050). 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 Latour 2005, Château Ausone 2010, Château Latour 2009, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 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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Prices & Deals for Château Margaux 2005
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-26 |
gbp |
438 |
| 2016-01-17 |
gbp |
718 |