In Bond Fine Wine. 2019 Château Sociando Mallet, Haut-Medoc, Bordeaux, France. Cru bourgeois • Red Bordeaux in 6x75cl. Top critic score: 94/100 (NM). Drinking window: 2025–2036. Sold in bond by Albany Vintners, independent fine wine merchants.
James Suckling (JS) — 93–94/100 · JamesSuckling.com, 13/05/2020
A juicy, flavorful red with blackberry and blueberry character. Some dark chocolate and walnuts, too. It's full-bodied and layered with hazelnut and spice undertones. Velvety and poised.
Jane Anson (JA) — 94/100 · Inside Bordeaux, 12/01/2022 · Drink 2028-2044
Located on one of the best quality gravel slopes of the Haut-Medoc, in the village of St Seurin de Cadourne, this is packed with cassis and damson fruits, plenty of tannic structure that holds everything firmly in place but lets the juice through even at this young point in its life. This is a blockbuster Sociando, one of the best in recent vintages, one to cellar for a good five or six years and…
Jane Anson (JA) — 94/100 · Decanter.com, 05/06/2020 · Drink 2027 - 2044
The last vintage under Jean Gautreau, and it's a great one to remember him by. Serious, with shoulders and muscles, reflecting the excellent gravel and clay soils at this spot of the Medoc in St Seurin de Cadoune. This is a long-term wine with blackcurrant and blackberry and well-formed tannins. A yield of 43hl/ha. 90% new oak. Consultant oenologist Michel-Bernard Couasnon.