WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 873; outperforming the average for the sub-region in 2003 which is 866. The average score for Château Pichon-Lalande is 905, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Pichon-Lalande they use words like Tannins, Full, Fruit, Black, Purple, Fine, Elegant, Fruits, Deep, Pure, Sweet, Graphite, Ripe, Plump, Rich. The 2003 shares some of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2003 but no other wine from Château Pichon-Lalande: Mature. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (12.5% vs 0%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2003 (12.5% vs 12.9%). The wine has been ready to drink for 9 years (since 2007) and has been past its best for 6 (since 2010). It normally takes wines from Château Pichon-Lalande around 10 years to be ready to start drinking, and 14 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 1983, Château Ausone 2014, Château Cheval Blanc 2006, Château Lafite Rothschild 2007, Château Palmer 1989; but better value alternatives would be Château Prieuré-Lichine 2005, Château Malescot St Exupéry 2003, Château Malescot St Exupéry 2005, Château Calon-Ségur 2004, Château Palmer 1990.
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 Pichon-Lalande 2003
| Date |
Currency |
Price |
| 2015-12-08 |
gbp |
144 |