Chateau Sociando Mallet, Haut Medoc, 2000 SO 042525 Botanicals include musk melon

Botanicals include musk melon

delivering wines of clarity and depth

The 2002 is a back-vintage bottle from a private collection

Ray's Road comes from a limestone hillside in Hawke's Bay at 180 meters elevation

Chateau Sociando Mallet, Haut Medoc, 2000 SO 042525 Botanicals include musk melonThe famous Bordeaux overachiever, from one of the modern era's greatest vintages. Sociando Mallet sits in Saint Seurin de Cadourne on a gravel rise in the Haut Medoc, and its late owner Jean Gautreau pointedly refused to enter it for any classification, convinced his wine deserved better than the labels on offer. The Cabernet Sauvignon led blend is famously structured and built to age like a classified growth. The 2000 vintage was a hyped, near