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2005 Château Sociando-Mallet, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux

  • Red
  • Dry
  • Full Bodied
  • Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (40%), Cabernet Franc (5%)
Ready - mature (Drink 2008 - 2018)
Robert Parker
93+/100
Product: 20051015274

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2005 Château Sociando-Mallet, Haut-Médoc, Bordeaux

Description

"As one might expect, proprietor Jean Gautreau has produced an uncompromisingly, potentially enormously long-lived 2005 that is as good as most Medoc cru classes. Based on previous vintages, it will undoubtedly require 10-12 years of cellaring. Its saturated blue/purple color is followed by a sumptuous bouquet of blueberries, white flowers, and minerals. Fresh, full-bodied, well-defined, and already revealing plenty of nuances, this intensely concentrated, impeccably pure effort is a classic vin de garde.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - Apr 2007
Colour Red
Sweetness Dry
Vintage 2005
Alcohol % 13%
Maturity Ready - mature (2008 - 2018)
Grape List Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (40%), Cabernet Franc (5%)
Body Full Bodied
Producer Château Sociando-Mallet

Critics reviews

Robert Parker 93+/100
Its hard not to admire the brilliant Jean Gautreau, who has run this great terroir and estate (just to the north of St-Estphes Chteau Montrose) with meticulous perfection for decades. The 2005 is a blend of 55% Cabernet Sauvignon, 40% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc. Offering beautifully sweet crme de cassis and blueberries, this is concentrated essence of blue and black fruits, with some underlying minerality, a medium to full-bodied mouthfeel, and stunning texture, length and purity. This is superb Sociando Mallet, with surprisingly sweet tannin, which is even more remarkable in this vintage of high and occasionally hard tannins. Give it another 4-5 years of cellaring, and drink it over the following 30 years.Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 29/06/2015
Drink 2020 - 2045
Robert Parker, RobertParker.com (Jun 2015)

About this wine

Haut-Médoc

Haut-Médoc

Despite being as visually unprepossessing as the rest of the Médoc, this large red-wine appellation is home to some of the world’s greatest wines. Its 4,500 hectares of vineyards form a largely continuous strip that follows the Gironde from St Seurin-de-Cadourne to Blanquefort. All the great communes of the Left Bank fall within its boundaries: Margaux, St Julien, Pauillac and St Estèphe.
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