Château Margaux 2006

WineMine Description

MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 805; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2006 which is 868. The average score for Château Margaux is 906, 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 2006 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2006 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Precocious, Elevated, Explosion, Hue, Limpid, Bold, Loam, Reticent, Expands, Sprightly. 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 2006 (12.5% vs 13.01%). The wine has been ready to drink for 2 years (since 2014) and should be consumed within the next 12 years (by 2028). 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 1996, Château Latour 2003, Château Cheval Blanc 2007, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2010, Château Margaux 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2006.

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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