Château Sociando-Mallet 2017 shriaz A tour de force of

A tour de force of shiraz

balanced by a peppery whole-bunch spice and just the right amount of asphalt-like savoury reduction

There is luminous

with a good presence of soft

Château Sociando-Mallet 2017 shriaz A tour de force ofChteau Sociando Mallet may claim not to be "neither classified nor bourgeois", but it is still considered one of the best wines of the Haut Mdoc appellation. Its vineyard extends over an impressive area of 85 hectares composed of gravelly soil on a clay limestone subsoil where vines of Cabernet Sauvignon (55%), Merlot (40%) and Cabernet Franc (5%) are planted. The wines of the estate benefit from a traditional maturing period of 12 months in new