Château Sociando-Mallet
Cuvée Jean Gautreau Sociando-Mallet Haut-Medoc
Haut-Médoc, Médoc, Bordeaux, France
Underrated delicious Bordeaux that evolves through time in tasting and (must be) in aging.
Underrated delicious Bordeaux that evolves through time in tasting and (must be) in aging.
Sep 5th, 2020
Selected lots of Sociando-Mallet, 100% cabernet sauvignon in 100% new oak - in other words a pretty good candidate to be shut down hard from the 2005 vintage, and sure enough it's got Sociando's hallmark austerity in spades, but there is no doubt this is a serious bottle of wine. It is a throwback Bordeaux, capable of giving you a petite madeleine moment for the kind of claret they don't really make much anymore. It's red-fruited with a tinge of something almost walnutty, for now the material is fairly tense without a whole lot of inner flesh (100% cabernet!) - looking forward to what develops here but will have to leave it in a deep, dark corner of the cellar. Will try the 1995 soon... should be interesting.
Selected lots of Sociando-Mallet, 100% cabernet sauvignon in 100% new oak - in other words a pretty good candidate to be shut down hard from the 2005 vintage, and sure enough it's got Sociando's hallmark austerity in spades, but there is no doubt this is a serious bottle of wine. It is a throwback Bordeaux, capable of giving you a petite madeleine moment for the kind of claret they don't really make much anymore. It's red-fruited with a tinge of something almost walnutty, for now the material is fairly tense without a whole lot of inner flesh (100% cabernet!) - looking forward to what develops here but will have to leave it in a deep, dark corner of the cellar. Will try the 1995 soon... should be interesting.
Nov 20th, 2016
