Sociando Mallet Vintage:2010 Readers can check out notes

Readers can check out notes on those wines in my recent feature on the estate posted on www

the wine holds its own as one of the most beautiful in the entire appellation and one of the best in the somewhat lackluster vintage

You can sense some of the heat of the growing season here

This will probably always be chewy and I have put the drinking window earlier than it might otherwise be to avoid the risk of this drying out with extended bottle age

as expected

Sociando Mallet Vintage:2010 Readers can check out notesThe 2010 Sociando Mallet has a well defined, pure bouquet with blackberry, bilberry and light estuarine scents that gently waft from the glass. The palate is medium bodied with grainy tannins, a fine bead of acidity and good weight. It just needs more complexity and terroir expression on the finish. Give this another two or three years. This is one wine where I have encountered better bottles. Tasted blind at Farr Vintners 10 Year On Bordeaux