WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 939; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2012 which is 861. The average score for Château Margaux is 904, 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 2012 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2012 but no other wine from Château Margaux: Dimensional, Cask, Chalk, Racy, Stones, Delineated, Sage, Grilled, Stony, Pliant. 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 2012 (13% vs 12.92%). The wine will be ready to drink in 7 years (in 2023) and should be consumed within the next 24 years (by 2040). 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 Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Mouton Rothschild 2008, Château Margaux 2006; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2008, Château Palmer 2012, Château Palmer 2012, Château Pontet-Canet 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, 80% of wines are better value.
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Prices & Deals for Château Margaux 2012
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-24 |
gbp |
37 |