WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 958; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2009 which is 861. The average score for Château Margaux is 903, 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 2009 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2009 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Crisp, Immense, Sandalwood, Lilacs, Bilberry, Allspice, Breadth, Charcoal, Generous, Acacia. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 12.9%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 2009 (13.5% vs 13.34%). The wine will be ready to drink in 2 years (in 2018) and should be consumed within the next 19 years (by 2035). 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 2008, Château Latour 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2009, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Pontet-Canet 2009, Château Palmer 2005, Château Pontet-Canet 2008, Les Forts de Latour 2009, Les Forts de Latour 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 2009
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
450 |