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A major success of this vintage! After a distinguished and radiant bouquet, on the palate this wine is velvety, dense and structured with superb, very mature tannins and a long taut finish, with utmost balance and freshness. A wine of great class!
Notes :- Bettane + Desseauve 16,5/20
- Gault & Millau 17/20
- Parker 88-90/100
- La Revue du Vin de France 16,5/ 20
Wine characteristics
- Vintage : Château Sociando Mallet
- Year : 2012
- Appellation : Haut-Médoc
- Colour : Red
- Grape types : 55 % Cabernet Sauvignon, 40 % Merlot, 5 % Caberne Franc
- Soil : gravels on chalky-clay
- Harvest : manual
- Type of viticulture : sustainable
- Contenance : 75cl
Tasting - Cellaring
- Appearance : dark purple robe
- Nose : red and black fruit
- Mouth : velvety and fresh
- Serving temperature : 16 - 18 °C
- Cellaring : 10 - 15 years
- Drink from : 2016
- Winemaking process : vatted for 30 days in temperature controlled vats
- Maturation : 12 months in new barrels
Food-matching
- Food-matching : a nice piece of beef, squab pigeon
Experts reviews :
Bettane + Desseauve
Rated wine : 16,5/20Gault & Millau
Rated wine : 17/20Parker
Rated wine : 88-90/100La Revue du Vin de France
Rated wine : 16,5/ 20
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Wines from Bordeaux are the quintessential image of French wine around the world. The region has 117,500 hectares of vineyards and produce 5,700,000 hl of wine in an average year.
The vineyards are wrapped around the Garonne, Dordogne and their shared estuary, the Gironde.
The climate in Bordeaux is temperate, with the vineyards themselves protected from the ocean by the département of Landes. Frosts are infrequent and while the spring and summer are sometimes fairly wet, a fine autumn is often the determining factor for the quality of the vintage.
The Bordeaux subsoil tends to be rather diverse. As a result, major vintages are often grown on gravelly hilltops, while the surroundings are made up of limestone or clay sediments les. Part of the complexity of Bordeaux stems from the way the grape type and subsoil combine to work their magic.
Grape types – red: merlot (60%), cabernet sauvignon (25%), cabernet franc (11%), as well as petit verdot and malbec.
Grape types – white: semillon (53%), sauvignon (35%), muscadelle (6%), as well as colombard and ugni blanc.
Recent vintages
- 2010: rich, powerful reds with imposing tannins. Great cellaring potential. Fresh, elegant dry whites. Fine sweet wines, fruity with fine acidity
- 2011: contrasting red with imposing tannins and immediate acidity.. Good dry whites that are easy to drink and refreshing. Rich, concentrated sweet wines.
- 2012: reds better on the right bank with its dominant Merlot grape. Drink fairly young while awaiting previous vintages to mature. Fragrant, well-balanced dry whites.
- 2013: a different, varied red vintage, but fine wines to be drunk young. Very fine and aromatic dry whites. Liquorous, ideal for racking with a magnificent balance.