WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 902; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 1996 which is 877. The average score for Château Palmer is 932, making this a below 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 1996 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 1996 but no other wine from Château Palmer: Sensuous, Exquisite, Beguiling, Jam, Tar, Olive, Thin. The wine has roughly a similar level of alcohol for the producer (12.5% vs 13.16%); it has average levels of alcohol for the region in 1996 (12.5% vs 12.53%). 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 Cheval Blanc 2010, Château Latour 2005, Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2009, Château L’Eglise-Clinet 2010, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Giscours 2005, Château Pichon-Lalande 2005, Château Haut-Brion 2012, Château Clerc-Milon 2010, Les Forts de Latour 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 Palmer 1996
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-04-04 |
gbp |
138 |
| 2015-04-04 |
gbp |
167 |