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• Hazeo Likes this wine: 90 points

  March 15, 2018 - Compared with the Jean Gautreau bottling of the same vintage, the regular Sociando-Mallet had a similar Medoc flavour profile but a lot less intense and thinner. Definitely a step down and given the relatively small price difference I'd spring for the former.

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• vijayk416 commented:

  3/15/18, 5:57 PM - There are two bottlings?!

• mimik commented:

  5/29/18, 8:53 PM - Vijay yes much to my own surprise. Found this out on the web
  
  Chateau Sociando Mallet, Cuvee Jean Gautreau
  
  in 1995, Sociando Mallet produced a special wine that was at the time, intended to only be produced in that one vintage, Sociando-Mallet Cuvee Jean Gautreau. The wine was made from a barrel selection and was aged in 100% new, French oak barrels. To produce the wine, Jean Gautreau pulled the eighty best barrels from over 1,500 barrels.
  
  Those barrels were aged separately. Then, out of those 80 barrels, Gautreau pulled what he considered the top 15 barrels. Those 300 cases were bottled for his own pleasure and were not originally intended for sale.
  
  However, when he discovered he was running out of room, the wines were sold in the marketplace. Sociando-Mallet Cuvee Jean Gautreau is difficult to find. But it might not sell for much a premium over the standard wine. Since that initial production, in 2013, Jean Gautreau decided to release several other vintages of the wine that covered the years 1996 to 2006.
  
  
  Read more at:https://www.thewinecellarinsider.com/bordeaux-wine-producer-profiles/bordeaux/haut-medoc-lesser-appellations/sociando-mallet/

• vijayk416 commented:

  5/30/18, 3:45 AM - Thanks Mim!

• Hazeo commented:

  2/11/19, 10:57 AM - If you can find it, I definitely recommend this cuvee!

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