Château Potensac 2005
WineMine Description
MyWineMine gives this wine a score of 774; underperforming the average for the sub-region in 2005 which is 831. The average score for Château Potensac is 860, making this a below average effort for the producer.
When people talk about wines from Château Potensac they use words like Fruit, Black, Tannins, Deep, Sweet, Depth, Ripe, Elegant, Currant, Structure, Cedar, Structured, Balance, Long, Rich. The 2005 shares most of these characteristics. People use these words to describe the 2005 but no other wine from Château Potensac: Oaking, Vibrant, Toast, Opaque, Dimensional, Berries, Grainy, Peel, Orange, Garnet. The wine has significantly higher levels of alcohol than this producer normally outputs (13.5% vs 0%); it has broadly similar levels of alcohol for the region in 2005 (13.5% vs 13.1%). The wine has been ready to drink for 6 years (since 2012) and should be consumed within the next 2 years (by 2020). It normally takes wines from Château Potensac around 4 years to be ready to start drinking, and 9 further years to decline.
It represents good value compared to Château La Mission-Haut-Brion 2005, Château Giscours 2005, Château Cheval Blanc 2005, Château Lafite Rothschild 2005, Château Rauzan-Ségla 2005; but better value alternatives would be Château Haut-Brion 2012.
MyWineMine has compared this wine to all others it has scored; this wine offers very good value for money, beating 70% of other wines when looking at the price per point of MyWineMine Score.
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Prices & Deals for Château Potensac 2005
| Date | Currency | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-17 | gbp | 31 |
| 2016-01-05 | gbp | 20 |