WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 1000; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1989 which is 907. The average score for Château Palmer is 930, making this an above average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Palmer they use words like Fruit, Full, Black, Tannins, Sweet, Long, Rich, Licorice, Deep, Purple, Dark, Dense, Ripe, Silky, Velvety. The 1989 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1989 but no other wine from Château Palmer: Acacia, Amber, Bark, Rose, Petals, Bolstered. The wine has significantly lower levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12% vs 13.19%); it has significantly lower levels of alcohol for the region in 1989 (12% vs 12.92%). The wine has been ready to drink for 21 years (since 1995) and should be consumed within the next 4 years (by 2020). It normally takes wines from Château Palmer around 8 years to be ready to start drinking, and 17 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Latour 2003, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Margaux 2010, Château Margaux 2006; but better value alternatives would be Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005, Les Forts de Latour 2005, Château Cos d’Estournel 2005, Château Grand-Puy-Lacoste 2009, Château Lynch-Bages 2011.
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 Palmer 1989
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2016-01-05 |
gbp |
208 |
| 2015-04-04 |
gbp |
236 |