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Chateau Sociando-Mallet, Haut Medoc, 2016

Red Wine from Bordeaux, France
by Chateau Sociando-Mallet
$72.99
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The most famous unclassified château in the Médoc, from a vintage everyone wanted. Sociando-Mallet sits on a gravel rise at Saint-Seurin-de-Cadourne, just north of Saint-Estephe, and its late owner Jean Gautreau spent fifty years making a point: he refused to submit the wine for classification, convinced it didn't need the label. Most Bordeaux drinkers quietly agree — this is a Cabernet Sauvignon-led claret built with the structure and seriousness of a classed growth. 2016 was one of the best Bordeaux vintages of the century, giving ripe fruit, firm fine-grained tannins and real freshness all at once. It's a wine made to age, and at nearly a decade old it's only beginning to unwind. Decant it, give it air, and put something roasted next to it.

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Antonio Galloni

91 points

"The 2016 Sociando Mallet is endowed with remarkable density and pure power, but it will be a number of years before the 2016 is ready to show all it’s got. Today, the wine's sheer luxuriousness is remarkable. Black cherry, plum, chocolate, spice and leather are all pushed forward. This is an especially concentrated, powerful vintage for Sociando, perhaps too much, but the wine's exotic beauty is, in my view, irresistible. Tasted two times." —Antonio Galloni

Robert Parker

94 points

"The 2016 Sociando-Mallet has a refulgent purple/black color. It has a very intense and rich, you might say "ambitious" bouquet with layers of small black cherries, blueberry and a touch of sloes, less tertiary than previous vintages and certainly more opulent. The palate is medium-bodied with juicy ripe tannin that almost disguise the firm structure underneath. I admire the completeness of this Sociando-Mallet, the neatly embroidered new oak and the freshness on the finish. The 2015 Sociando-Mallet did not fire on all cylinders last year, but this 2016 is totally convincing. It comes highly recommended as one of the best wines produced at this estate in the northern Médoc. This is an outstanding wine from Mon. Gautreau." —Neal Martin

Jancis Robinson

16.5 points

"Very dark glowing crimson. Great graphite nose. Some rich meatiness. Very much pushed up the ripeness scale. Seems richer than I remember it but it's clearly very ambitious. Thick and sweet. Not really my style but it will over-deliver to those who are still looking for a wine from the 1990s! Drying end. Drink 2024-2040."

More about Chateau Sociando-Mallet

Sociando-Mallet is an unclassified estate which easily performs at a "cru classé" level, and even over certain 2nd and 3rd growth wines. If you dig the firm, gravelly style of left-bank Cabernet Sauvignon, you'll hard pressed to find a better value.

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Perfect Pairings

Roast lamb, ribeye, duck, or hard aged cheeses.

Tasting Profile

Dry and full-bodied, Cabernet-driven, with cassis, cedar, graphite and tobacco over firm, fine-grained tannins.

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